Solarize Cincy
Previously, the City of Cincinnati, in partnership with Solar United Neighbors, offered the Solarize Cincy program. Available for a limited time each year, Solarize Cincy was an innovative program to make going solar easy.
The program educated Cincinnati residents about the benefits of solar and helped them determine if solar was a good investment for their home. It also connected them with qualified contractors and leveraged the power of bulk purchasing to help them purchase solar at a competitive price.
A number of factors continue to make the installation of solar panels an attractive and economical option for homeowners:
- The federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) provides homeowners with a 30 percent tax credit for solar and energy storage installations.
- The cost of a solar installation has dropped by nearly 75 percent in the last 10 years.
- Using the Solarize volume discount, residents saved between 10 and 20 percent off the normal cost of solar installations; the larger the system, the greater the savings.
- Today’s solar panels are more visibly appealing than in the past, can be customized to unique roofs, and have warranties that exceed 25 years.
- The in-house infrastructure needed to support the system is less complicated than in the past and takes up very little space.
Since its creation in 2015, the Solarize program has helped over 120 Cincinnati residents install 726.23 kW of solar on their homes. Collectively, these installations are generating an estimated 904,368 kWh of electricity and offsetting over 707 tons of CO2 annually.
For more information on the Solarize program, visit Solar United Neighbors.