No, and this is a common point of confusion. Des Moines County is a separate place in Iowa’s southeast corner, seated at Burlington on the Mississippi River. The city of Des Moines, Iowa’s state capital and largest city, is roughly 100 miles northwest and sits in Polk County, which has its own separate dedicated SolQ page. This page is specifically about Burlington-based Des Moines County.

Yes — all of it. Burlington is our most established market in the county and the county seat, but SolQ installs residential solar throughout Des Moines County: Burlington, West Burlington, and the smaller communities and rural addresses in between. This page exists specifically to cover the whole county in one place, not just the biggest city.

If you live anywhere inside Des Moines County’s borders, we almost certainly serve you, including smaller communities like New London and Danville and the rural stretches of the county. Reach out and we’ll confirm coverage, utility, and crediting terms for your specific address before you commit to anything.

Yes — Burlington and West Burlington both have their own dedicated SolQ pages with city-specific pricing, utility, and permitting detail. This county page is the place to start if you’re not sure which city page applies to you, or if you live outside both cities.

For most of the county, including both Burlington and West Burlington, it’s Alliant Energy — per findenergy.com, Alliant is the largest provider in Des Moines County by a wide margin, with an estimated 7,496 county customers, or roughly 65% of accounts. Rural addresses and the areas around New London, Danville, and the southwestern edge toward Mount Pleasant have a real chance of being served instead by Eastern Iowa Light & Power (about 2,641 county customers), the New London or Danville municipal utilities, or Access Energy Cooperative. We confirm your exact provider before designing your system.

Alliant credits solar production through its inflow-outflow billing structure: power you draw from the grid (inflow) is billed at your normal rate, and power you export (outflow) is credited separately at Alliant’s approved energy credit rate. SolQ checks the exact terms on your account before you sign anything. Full detail is on our dedicated Alliant Energy solar page.

Eastern Iowa Light & Power is a member-owned rural electric cooperative reaching the rural stretches of the county, with its own crediting structure separate from Alliant’s investor-owned tariff. New London and Danville each run their own small municipal electric utility with independent solar policies. Access Energy Cooperative, based in nearby Mount Pleasant, reaches a small slice of the county’s southwestern corner. We check which utility and rate structure applies to your account and explain exactly what it means for your savings before you sign anything.

No. Iowa’s state income-tax credit for residential solar isn’t available for systems installed after 2021. Two state benefits still apply regardless: a 5-year property-tax exemption on the added home value from your system, and a sales-tax exemption on qualifying solar equipment (labor is still taxable).

If you’re buying your system outright through cash or a loan, the federal Residential Clean Energy Credit (Section 25D) ended for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025, under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed in July 2025. If you go with a Lease or PPA instead, the benefit is still built in indirectly: our financing partner owns the system and claims a separate federal credit for commercial-owned solar (Section 48E, active for projects that begin construction by July 4, 2026, or are placed in service by December 31, 2027), which is part of how they can offer $0-down payments below what you’re currently paying your utility. We’ll walk you through exactly what applies to you during your free consultation.

Yes, and they vary by municipality. Burlington and West Burlington each run their own permitting process, separate from Des Moines County’s own rules for unincorporated areas. We handle the paperwork with your specific city or the county, and file the interconnection application with your utility, so you don’t have to sort out which office to call.

Many projects are installed in as soon as 30 days. Some take longer, up to 2-3 months, depending on your municipality’s permitting timeline and your utility’s interconnection queue — Burlington can move differently than a smaller community like West Burlington or New London. We give you a realistic timeline for your specific address up front.

Yes — 18 completed residential installs on record: 13 in Burlington and 5 in West Burlington, ranging from 4.4 to 16.0 kW in system size, mostly on Alliant Energy accounts. That’s a real, verified local footprint backed by the same track record behind our 1,179 completed Iowa installs statewide.

Burlington was briefly the capital of both the Wisconsin Territory (1837) and the Iowa Territory (1838–1841), and it’s home to Snake Alley, often called the crookedest street in the world. That history doesn’t change the electrical engineering, but it does mean Burlington has a dense core of historic and mid-century homes alongside newer construction — a mix of roof types SolQ’s local crews have already worked on across our 13 completed Burlington installs.