UT Residential Clean Energy Tax Credit

The UT Residential Clean Energy Tax Credit is a state-level credit against what you owe, tracked as one of Utah's solar incentives in the DSIRE registry. Eligibility is scoped to residential customers, with a stated benefit of 25% of cost, max $800. DSIRE lists no scheduled sunset, though enabling legislation and appropriations can still be revised year to year.

That baseline is slower than most states, which raises the stakes for every incentive on the table. Utah averages 5.9 kWh/m²/day of usable sunlight and residential rates of 10.8¢/kWh, producing an estimated 10,337 kWh/year and $1,116 of annual utility offset on a typical 6 kW system costing $16,200. That baseline already implies a 14.5-year simple payback and a 25-year modeled net of roughly $11,700 before this incentive - every dollar this tax credit delivers compresses that payback further.

A handful of other levers are worth checking alongside this one. Utah has 4 solar incentive programs indexed in DSIRE, including adjacent options like UT Solar Property Tax Exemption, UT Net Metering. The state's net-metering policy is classified as full, which governs how excess generation is credited and often decides whether a given program is worth claiming for a specific household.