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The 30% federal solar credit for homeowners ended in 2025.

If you buy a system with cash or a loan this year, there's no federal credit waiting for you. That's the honest answer. Anyone still advertising one is selling you last year's math.

But that isn't the whole picture.

The credit didn't end for everyone. Businesses still have theirs. There are financing paths where that incentive stays in play.

We're not going to flatten how that works into a caption. It depends on the option, your roof, and your situation. It deserves a real explanation, not a slogan.

What we will say plainly is the trade. Owning your system outright
builds equity and resale value. Other paths trade that ownership for a different benefit.

Neither is a trick. They're different tools.

Ask us. We'll walk you through which one your numbers actually favor — even when the answer isn't the bigger sale.

You're the fiduciary of your own house.

A fiduciary acts in the owner's long-term financial interest. So look
at the numbers like one.

Colorado electric bills rose about 30% in five years. Regulators
project they could climb another 20% to 30% by 2027.

You'll pay for power every month for as long as you own the home. That
cost rises on a schedule you don't set.

You can keep renting your power. Or you can own what makes it.

We're not saying solar wins for every roof. Shade and usage matter.
We're saying an owner who never runs the numbers isn't doing their own
diligence.

Run them. That's the whole ask.

We’ve been nominated for Best of the Front Range by The Denver Post.
Colorado solar since 2009. We design, permit, install, and turn on every system we sell.
If we’ve done right by you, we’d be grateful for your vote.
One catch: the ballot asks for a category. Choose Home & Garden > Solar Energy Company. Vote daily through Friday, August 28.
Scan the QR, or vote at votethefrontrange.com (link in bio).
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We've been nominated for Best of the Front Range by The Denver Post.

That means something to us. We've designed, permitted, installed, and turned on Colorado solar since 2009. Every system we sell, we finish ourselves.

If we've done right by you, we'd be grateful for your vote.

One thing trips people up: the ballot asks for a category. Find us under Home & Garden > Solar Energy Company. You can vote once a day through Friday, August 28.

Vote here: votethefrontrange.com

Thanks for being part of it.

You’ve seen the ads. “Go solar for free.” “The government will pay for it.”

Let’s set that one straight.

There has never been free solar. There never was.

What’s real: rebates and tax credits that lower the cost. Money back against what you owe, not a check that covers the system. Real incentives, but not free.

Here’s the part most ads skip. It still has to pencil out for your home, your roof, your bill. That’s the number we actually run with you.

We’d rather tell you the true version than sell you the easy one.

You own your home. You don't own your power.

Every month, you rent it. The bill comes. You pay it. And the rate isn't yours to set.

So we wrote the honest version of the math for a Colorado homeowner in 2026. Not a sales pitch. A builder's read on where solar's numbers actually work, and where the story changed this year.

A few things inside:

• The 30% homeowner tax credit ended. We say so plainly and explain what still holds without it.
• Colorado bills rose about 30% in five years. Net metering turns rising rates against the utility, not you.
• A new bathroom can cost what a solar system costs. But the bathroom never sends you a smaller bill.

No hype. Just the numbers, sourced.

Read the full piece → https://aresolar.com/make-your-own-power-the-honest-math-for-a-colorado-homeowner-in-2026/

Homeowners lost the 30% solar tax credit this year. Businesses didn't.

If you own a building in Colorado, your power is an expense you'll carry for as long as you operate. And that rate keeps climbing.

Solar changes what that expense is. Instead of renting power, you own a system that makes it — a depreciating asset that hedges a rising cost. Turn an expense into an asset.

One detail most coverage gets wrong: the business credit follows PTO. You claim it the year the system is turned on, not the year you sign. If construction wasn't underway by July 4, it has to be running by the end of 2027. Permitting and interconnection take months here, so the real clock is a build schedule.

We wrote the whole capital case — sourced, no hype.

Read it → https://aresolar.com/the-homeowner-tax-credit-is-gone-the-business-one-isnt-heres-what-that-means-for-a-colorado-company/

We don't give tax advice. Bring your accountant. Then bring us the roof.