The federal government covers up to 40% of a roof-and-solar project. Not 40% of the panels. 40% of the roof and the solar, together. A tax credit if you pay tax. A cash check if you don't. Replace your roof without running the numbers, and you didn't miss a tax break. You walked past money that was waiting for you.
A reroof is the one moment the crew is mobilized and the structure is staged for work. Add solar then and the federal money offsets part of the whole project. Skip the question and you pay full price for the roof, then close the cheapest door you will ever have to solar. The owners who got in didn't do anything you can't. They asked before the roof went on.
If your finance team never flagged this, it isn't because they missed it. It's because no one ever handed them the backup to claim it — the roof file, documented the day the work happens. That's the part we build. They can't act on what they were never given.
The 40% credit lands on the roof and the solar together, dollar for dollar against your taxes. Add first-year depreciation and the benefit can add up to roughly the full cost of one of the two. You were buying the roof anyway — so the solar is the part that comes out covered.
The same credit, up to 40% with domestic content, comes back as cash from the IRS, even with no tax bill to offset. You don't need tax liability to get paid. It lands as a direct payment, written to an entity that never owed the government a dime.
The 40% rate requires meeting domestic content sourcing rules; the base credit is 30%. Figures depend on the system, the building, and your situation. Your finance team and tax advisors set the actual numbers. Credo builds the file they work from. We don't give tax advice.
You don't have to. A C-PACE lender can fund the entire project — roof and solar, 100%, with no money down. It's repaid over a long term through an assessment on the property itself, so the cost lives with the building, not your operating cash. The incentives still come back to you. The capital objection is the one that was never real.
Your roof, your power use, and what the credit covers. No cost to find out where you stand.
Roof and solar together, so the credit lands on both, not just the panels.
One crew, one timeline, one file your finance team can hand straight to your tax advisors.
A credit against your taxes, or a check from the IRS if you're tax-exempt.
The 2025 tax law put a clock on the credit. Move while it's open and you keep up to 40%. Wait until you fully understand it and you watch it expire. A roof-and-solar project takes planning, which is exactly why the time to find out is now, not later.