Installers, contractors and solar service companies whose service area covers New York.
New York just passed 8 gigawatts of distributed solar — rooftop and community projects spread across more than 276,000 sites, enough to power 1.3 million homes and businesses — putting the state ahead of schedule for its 10-gigawatt-by-2030 law. It is also the nation's top community solar market, home to about 35% of all US community solar generation, and Albany added another $200 million for the NY-Sun program in the 2027 budget to fund roughly one more gigawatt of rooftop and community projects.
The homeowner stack has three layers. NY-Sun pays an upfront per-watt cash incentive through your installer, applied directly to your system cost — the rate steps down as each region's capacity block fills, and income-eligible households get a boosted rate. The state's residential solar tax credit takes another 25% off the cost of equipment and installation on your New York income taxes. And net metering still credits home systems up to 25 kW kilowatt-hour for kilowatt-hour at the retail rate; systems connected since 2022 also pay a modest monthly Customer Benefit Contribution — roughly $0.70 to $1.10 per kilowatt of capacity, depending on the utility — that helps fund the state's clean-energy programs.
From Long Island and New York City to the Hudson Valley, Rochester, Syracuse, and Buffalo, the installers below know their region's current NY-Sun block rate and how to stack it with the state credit. Compare quotes, and browse our solar energy resources for guides to community solar subscriptions, battery storage, and winter production.
