Solar PV · NJ
Solar in New Jersey.
New Jersey pays you twice: once by cutting the bill, and again by buying the certificates your roof earns for 15 years.
New Jersey
What makes New Jersey different.
Typical homes here see about $0.25 / kWh and 1,290 kWh per kW per year. We size the system to your bill — then confirm it on the roof.
Every 1,000 units of electricity your panels make earns a certificate the state purchases from you under the Successor Solar Incentive program. The rate is fixed on the day your system is registered and then runs for 15 years, so what you need to know is the rate on your registration date — we confirm it then rather than quoting a number here that moves.
On top of that, all four utilities — PSE&G, JCP&L, Atlantic City Electric and Rockland — credit exported power at the full retail rate. Equipment is exempt from sales tax, and adding panels does not raise your property assessment.
One honest caveat on ownership. If you lease the system or sign a power purchase agreement, the certificate income and the net-metering credits go to whoever owns the equipment, not to you. That can still be the right choice, but you should know what you are trading away before you sign.
- Local programs that may apply
SuSI / ADI SREC-II payments
$77 / MWh, locked 15 years
Your system earns one certificate for every 1,000 units of electricity it produces, and the state buys them for 15 years at a rate locked on your registration date. That rate is $77 / MWh for registrations from July 27, 2026 — the Board cut it from $85 in May. Once you are registered it does not move for the full term, which makes it one of the few numbers in solar you can actually count on.
Full retail net metering
1:1 credit
All four New Jersey utilities credit exported power at the full retail rate. What your roof sends out is worth what you would have paid to buy it.
Sales tax exemption
100% exempt
Solar equipment is fully exempt from New Jersey sales tax. You need a completed ST-4 form, which we file.
Property tax exemption
100% exempt
Adding solar does not raise your assessment. The exemption requires a certificate from your municipal assessor.
New Jersey, specifically
What power has actually cost here.
Every savings figure on this site assumes your utility keeps raising its rate. So does every other company’s. The difference is that you can check ours — these are the federal government’s own published prices for New Jersey, next to the number we model.
| Last 5 years (2019–2024) | 4.1% |
|---|---|
| Last 10 years (2014–2024) | 2.1% |
| Since 2005 (2005–2024) | 2.7% |
| What Helio assumes | 4.0% |
No single window is the truth, which is exactly why anyone showing you one number for the next twenty-five years — including us — is showing you an assumption. Ask any installer what your savings look like at today’s rate with no increase at all. How the money works runs that comparison.
Who you buy power from here
PSE&G, JCP&L, Atlantic City Electric, Rockland Electric. Which one serves your address decides the tariff you can take and the credit you get for what the roof exports, so an advisor confirms it before anything is filed.
Who does the work
Crews dispatch from Trenton. Licensed in New Jersey as 13VH13384400 — public record, worth looking up before you let anyone on your roof.
What your roof earns on top of the bill
New Jersey buys a certificate for every 1,000 kWh your system makes. The rate is $77 / MWh for registrations from July 27, 2026, and once you are registered it is locked for 15 years — it does not rise and it does not fall. We model it flat for that term and at zero afterwards, because that is exactly what it does.
See what solar could save in New Jersey.
Prelim online. In-home visit to lock the number.