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Solar & Home Battery Installation in Indiana
Indiana utilities now credit the power you export at about 4¢ per kWh — and charge you about 15¢ to buy it back. We design systems that keep your energy in your house instead of selling it to the grid at a discount.
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1,000+ installations completed · NABCEP Advanced Certified · 25-year product warranty · Family-owned in Indianapolis
Indiana changed the rules. Most solar pitches haven’t caught up.
Until 2022, Indiana’s largest utilities — AES Indiana, Duke Energy Indiana, NIPSCO, CenterPoint, and Indiana Michigan Power — credited rooftop solar at the full retail rate under net metering. For new systems, that’s over. You’re now enrolled in Excess Distributed Generation (EDG), which credits exported power at roughly 3–5¢ per kWh while you keep buying electricity back at 14–17¢.
On top of that, the 30% federal residential solar tax credit (Section 25D) expired on December 31, 2025. A system you buy outright today earns no federal credit. Any installer still leading with “30% off” is selling you something that no longer exists.
Here’s what actually follows from that: a system designed to push power onto the grid is now the wrong system for Indiana. The right one is a system you consume yourself — a right-sized array, battery storage that holds the afternoon’s production for the evening, and controls that decide where every kilowatt-hour goes. That’s the design we’ve been building for years. We call it NanoGrid.
See what this means for your home
What’s still on the table in Indiana
Sales tax exemption
Qualifying solar equipment is exempt from Indiana sales tax — applied automatically at purchase, no paperwork, no income limit.
Property tax exemption
Your system’s value is deducted from your assessed property value via State Form 18865. Your taxes don’t go up because you went solar.
Zero-down financing
We offer $0-down financing on any energy efficiency upgrade when paired with solar.
Local rebates
Some Indiana municipalities run their own solar and battery rebate programs. We’ll check what applies to your address.
What We Install
Four systems that work as one. Add them all at once or build up over time — every install is designed so the next piece drops in without rework.
Simple
Solar Panel Installation
Rooftop and ground-mount arrays sized to your actual usage, not to a sales quota. Permitting, utility interconnection, and inspection handled start to finish. 25-year product warranty, 10-year workmanship warranty.
Secure
Home Battery Storage & Backup
The piece that makes solar work under Indiana’s EDG rules. Store your midday production and use it at night at full retail value instead of exporting it at 4¢. Keeps your critical circuits running through an outage.
Smart
Energy Controls & Monitoring
See what every circuit in your house is doing, from your phone. Controls route production to your loads and your battery first, so you export as little as possible.
Safe
NanoGrid Homes & Microgrid Communities
New construction and multi-home developments designed to run as their own grid. For builders and developers planning energy-independent projects from the ground up.
1000
Solar Installations Completed
10
Years Installing in Indiana
25
Warranty On Solar Products
10
Warranty On Our Workmanship
How It Works
Three steps, no pressure, no obligation. Most homeowners are through step one in under 45 minutes.
01
Free Home Assessment
We pull 12 months of your utility usage, check your roof, shading, and panel capacity, and tell you plainly whether solar makes sense for your house. Sometimes the answer is no. We’ll say so.
02
Your Energy Plan & Fixed Quote
A written design showing array size, battery capacity, projected production, your EDG exposure, and a fixed price. Financing options laid out side by side so you can compare monthly cost against your current bill.
03
We Install & Handle The Paperwork
Our own crews, not subcontractors. We file the permits, manage utility interconnection, schedule inspection, and stay on the account until your system is switched on and producing.
What Indiana Homeowners Say
★★★★★
“Rectify was great to work with for our residential solar rooftop project. Phil was awesome and answered dozens of questions that I had. He did a free site assessment and tailored the project multiple times to fit our goals and budget. I highly recommend calling them to see what they can do for you!”
Chase Haller
★★★★★
“Our solar panels are beautiful and we’re producing all of our own power plus extra energy for the grid. The folks at Rectify are truly awesome people and we couldn’t be happier with our system.”
Lanette Erby-Abbott
★★★★★
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Why Homeowners Pick Rectify
Certified, Not Just Licensed
Our founder holds NABCEP Advanced certification — the highest credential in the trade, and rare in this market. We’re OSHA safety trained and EPA Lead-Safe certified, and Phil sits on the board of the Indiana Renewable Energy Association.
Local & Family-Owned
We’re headquartered in Indianapolis and we’ve been here over a decade. National installers route your call to a call center in another state and subcontract the labor. When something needs fixing in year seven, we’re still the ones picking up.
We Design For Today’s Rules
Most quotes you’ll get are still sized for retail net metering, which Indiana no longer offers. We size for self-consumption and model your actual EDG exposure — so the savings on our proposal are the savings you get.
Financing That Fits
With the federal residential credit gone, how you pay for solar matters more than it used to. We’ll walk you through every option and show the monthly math against your current utility bill — including whether waiting is the better call for you.
Solar in Indiana: Straight Answers
Is solar still worth it in Indiana in 2026?
For a lot of homes, yes — but the math is different than it was two years ago, and anyone who answers this question without looking at your utility bill is guessing. Two things changed: the 30% federal residential tax credit ended on December 31, 2025, and Indiana’s major utilities stopped offering retail-rate net metering to new customers back in 2022. What still works in your favor is that Indiana electricity rates keep climbing, equipment costs have come down, and the state sales and property tax exemptions are both still in place. The systems that pencil out now are the ones designed around using your own power rather than selling it. That’s the assessment we do for free — including telling you if the answer for your house is “not yet.”
What happened to the 30% federal solar tax credit?
It expired. The Residential Clean Energy Credit under Section 25D of the tax code was repealed early by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed in July 2025, and it no longer applies to expenditures made after December 31, 2025. If you buy a system with cash or a loan in 2026, there is no federal credit — no phase-down, no transition period. If you installed in 2025 or earlier, your credit is unaffected and you can still carry forward any unused portion. A federal credit does still exist on the commercial side (Section 48E) and can reach homeowners indirectly through third-party-owned arrangements like leases and PPAs, where the system owner claims it. We’re happy to explain how that works for your situation, but please confirm anything tax-related with your CPA — we install systems, we don’t file returns.
What is Excess Distributed Generation (EDG) and how does it affect my bill?
EDG is what replaced net metering in Indiana. Under the old rules, every kilowatt-hour you sent to the grid offset one you bought later, at the same price. Under EDG, the utility credits your exports at roughly 125% of their avoided cost — which in practice has been running around 3 to 5 cents per kWh — while you continue buying power at the retail rate of roughly 14 to 17 cents. So exporting a kilowatt-hour is worth about a quarter of what using it yourself is worth. This applies to new customers of AES Indiana, Duke Energy Indiana, NIPSCO, CenterPoint, and Indiana Michigan Power. If you’re on a rural electric co-op or a municipal utility, your terms may be better — we’ll check yours specifically. And if you already have solar under legacy net metering, you keep it.
Do I actually need a battery, or will panels alone do?
Panels alone still work, and for some households they’re the right call — particularly if you use most of your electricity during daylight hours. But under EDG, every kilowatt-hour you export is worth about a quarter of one you use yourself, and most families use the bulk of their power after sunset. A battery closes that gap: it holds your midday production and releases it during the evening peak, so more of what you generate offsets electricity at the full retail rate. It also keeps your critical circuits alive during an outage, which panels alone will not do. We’ll model both scenarios with your real usage data and show you the difference in writing rather than asking you to take our word for it.
How much does a solar system cost in Indiana?
Cost depends on your usage, roof, electrical panel, and whether you’re adding storage — a modest array on a simple roof and a whole-home system with battery backup are genuinely different projects. [[ EDIT: insert your typical installed price range here, e.g. “Most of the residential systems we install in Indiana land between $X and $Y before financing.” Publishing a real range is one of the highest-converting things you can do on this page — it filters out tire-kickers and builds trust with serious buyers. ]] Your assessment includes a fixed written quote, not an estimate that moves later. We also offer zero-down financing on any energy efficiency upgrade when it’s paired with solar.
Will my lights stay on during a power outage?
Only if you have a battery. This surprises people: a grid-tied solar array without storage shuts down during an outage. That’s a safety requirement — it protects utility line workers from a system backfeeding into lines they’re repairing. With battery storage and the right transfer equipment, your designated critical circuits stay live and your panels keep recharging the battery through the outage. During the assessment we’ll help you decide which circuits matter most — typically the refrigerator, furnace blower, well pump, internet, and a few outlets.
What warranties do you offer?
25 years on our solar products and 10 years on our installation workmanship. The distinction matters more than most homeowners realize: a manufacturer’s product warranty covers the panel itself, but if the problem is a roof penetration or a wiring fault, that’s workmanship — and plenty of installers offer only one or two years there, or have gone out of business by the time you need them. We’ve been operating in Indiana for over a decade and we service what we install.
What areas of Indiana do you serve?
[[ EDIT AND VERIFY THIS LIST — only include areas you genuinely cover. ]] We install throughout central Indiana, including Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville, Westfield, Zionsville, Greenwood, Avon, Brownsburg, Plainfield, Bloomington, Columbus, Anderson, Muncie, and Lafayette. If your town isn’t listed, call us at (317) 643-1002 — we cover more ground than this list suggests and we’ll tell you straight if you’re outside our range.
Find out what solar actually does for your house
A free assessment, no obligation, no high-pressure close. We look at your last 12 months of usage, your roof, and your utility’s current EDG rate, then give you a written design and a fixed price. If solar isn’t right for your home, we’ll tell you that instead.
133 W Market St #268, Indianapolis, IN 46204
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Solar Installation Across Central Indiana
Rectify Solar installs residential solar panels, home battery storage, and EV charging in Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville, Westfield, Zionsville, Greenwood, Avon, Brownsburg, Plainfield, Bloomington, Columbus, Anderson, Muncie, and Lafayette. [[ EDIT — verify this list matches your real service area before publishing. ]]
