Maryland Solar Incentives, Rebates & Tax Credits (2026)

Maryland's flagship residential grant pays $750 per kW DC installed, capped at $7,500 per household. The catch is income: your household must be at or below 150% of the Maryland state median income — roughly $195,375 for a family of four. Partial grants are not awarded. The FY27 application window opened July 29, 2026 with a $10 million budget, and funding runs out early — FY26 stopped taking new applications in April, months before the fiscal year ended.

Your system earns one Solar Renewable Energy Certificate per megawatt-hour, which you sell into Maryland's compliance market. Recent broker pricing has been around $40 for current vintages. This is a traded market price, not a rate the state sets — it moves, and nobody can guarantee you a figure for the life of your system.

Residential solar equipment is fully exempt from Maryland's 6% sales tax.

Under Tax-Property Article §7-242, solar equipment used to generate electricity for the structure or supplied to the grid via net metering is not subject to real property tax. Your land and buildings are assessed normally.