Section 48E · Commercial Investment Tax Credit
This credit is sunsetting.
The sun comes up every day. The 30% federal credit for commercial solar does not. It ends for any system not running by December 31, 2027.
Designed, permitted, interconnected, built, inspected and switched on by that date. Don’t miss out: call us today for updated information.
What changed
Congress moved the finish line.
In July 2025 the One Big Beautiful Bill Act rewrote the clean-energy credits. Projects that began construction by July 4, 2026 kept a longer runway, and that window has already closed.
For a Florida business starting today there is exactly one way left to claim the 30%: the system must be placed in service, running rather than contracted, by December 31, 2027.
Eighteen months sounds like plenty. For commercial solar (design, county permits, utility interconnection, construction, inspection) it is not. The real deadline is the contract.
The runway
What has to happen, and when.
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Step 1 · This week
Free commercial analysis
Your roof, your rate schedule, real numbers. No cost, no obligation.
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Step 2 · 4–8 weeks
Contract, engineering and design
Final system spec, structural review, financing if you want it.
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Step 3 · 2–5 months
Permits and interconnection
County permitting plus FPL or Duke interconnection approval. This is the stage nobody controls, which is why starting early matters.
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Step 4 · 6–12 weeks
Construction and commissioning
Racking, modules, electrical, utility witness test.
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Step 5 · Before December 31, 2027
Placed in service
Inspected, energized, producing. This is the line that cannot slip.
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Step 6 · That tax year
Claim the credit
30% of the system cost off your federal tax bill, plus one-year bonus depreciation on top.
Start in early 2027 and one slow permit can cost you the entire credit. Start now and the runway is comfortable.
It stacks
Florida sweetens it further.
The federal credit is the headline, but it is not the whole number. These stack on the same system.
On a recent free analysis for a Daytona Beach commercial building, the estimated return came back at 11.9% without the credit, and 16.5% with it. The building works either way. The deadline decides how well.
30%
Federal tax credit
A credit against your federal taxes, not a deduction. On a $400,000 system, that is $120,000 back.
Year 1
Bonus depreciation
Commercial solar qualifies for one-year bonus depreciation: the entire system cost written off in year one, on top of the credit.
0%
Florida sales tax
Certified solar equipment is exempt from Florida sales tax. That saving is built into the quote.
80%
Property tax exclusion
Florida excludes 80% of a commercial renewable energy device's value from tangible personal property tax.
Non-profit, church or municipal building? A direct-payment version of the credit exists for you: the Treasury pays it out even with no tax bill to offset. How Direct Pay works →
After the sunset
Batteries keep their credit.
Congress ended the runway for solar, not for storage. Energy storage keeps its federal credit beyond the 2027 sunset, so a system designed with batteries protects part of the incentive either way, and keeps your building running when the grid does not.
Free commercial analysis
The clock only moves one way.
One conversation. We look at your building, your bill and the calendar, and come back with real numbers: the credit, the depreciation, the Florida exemptions, and whether the runway still works for you. If it does not, we will say so.
- No cost and no obligation
- Same-day answers from the people who do the installs
- Have your latest utility bill handy, bar chart and all. That is all we need
- Fifty-plus years of Central Florida installs behind the numbers