Residential Clean Energy Credit
Unlike solar and wind, which had their construction cutoff dates moved up, BESS projects will remain eligible for the investment tax credit
The best incentive for storage is the federal investment tax credit (ITC). The exact same ITC that provides a 30 percent credit on the cost of your solar system provides that same benefit to storage systems under certain conditions.
The Program Manual [PDF] provides a full list of project eligibility and requirements. For battery storage systems above five MW of AC power, projects could be eligible for incentives through the Bulk Energy Storage Program. Additional details on both the Residential and Retail Energy Storage Incentive are available in the program manual [PDF].
To date, state-level performance incentives for storage have typically been added to solar incentives. Perhaps the best-known state-level storage incentive in the US is California's Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP). SGIP provides a dollar per kilowatt ($/kW) rebate for the energy storage installed.
But act fast–this incentive is currently only authorized through the 2022 tax year and there's a cap on the level of funding available each year. Massachusetts offers a storage adder under the commonwealth's solar-focused SMART incentive program.
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