Section 48E — Commercial Clean Electricity Investment Credit
Also known as: Commercial ITC48EClean Electricity Investment Credit
Section 48E is the commercial-side federal tax credit for clean electricity property investments. It's the surviving path for federal tax credit benefit on residential solar and battery installs in 2026 — but only via the leased / third-party agreement route, where the system owner (the installer or financing entity) claims the credit and passes the savings to you as lower monthly payments.
If you want a federal tax credit on a 2026 solar or battery install, the leased / third-party-owned path is the way. You don't claim Section 48E yourself — the installer does. You see the benefit as a lower monthly payment relative to the unsubsidized cost.
Section 48E is the surviving federal-credit path for residential solar in 2026, but only via leased or third-party-owned systems. We sell owned systems only and don't make referrals on that route — we haven't found an arrangement we'd stand behind. We model owned-system math at the free inspection; third-party agreements aren't a scenario we offer.
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