All of it. SolQ installs residential solar throughout Guthrie County: Guthrie Center, Stuart, Panora, Bayard, Menlo, Yale, Bagley, Jamaica, and the rural farmland in between.

If you live anywhere inside Guthrie County’s borders, we almost certainly serve you. Reach out and we’ll confirm coverage, utility, and crediting terms for your specific address before you commit to anything.

It depends on your exact address. Per findenergy.com, Alliant Energy (about 4,042 county customers) is the largest, followed by Guthrie County REC (about 2,969 customers), then the Panora and Stuart municipal utilities and three smaller providers covering the rest. We confirm your exact provider before designing your system.

Guthrie County REC is a member-owned cooperative headquartered in Guthrie Center, not a state-regulated investor-owned utility, so it sets its own interconnection and crediting rules for member-owned solar rather than following a standard Iowa Utilities Commission tariff. SolQ confirms the exact terms directly with the co-op before your system is designed.

Alliant is a large, state-regulated investor-owned utility with a published crediting tariff for solar exports. We confirm which structure applies to your account and what it means for your savings before you sign anything.

Both Panora’s municipal electric utility and the City of Stuart Utilities are locally owned, not-for-profit systems that set their own interconnection and metering rules rather than following a standard state tariff. We check the current terms with each utility directly before your system is designed.

It depends on your roof, your usage, and which utility serves your address — system sizes across SolQ’s completed Iowa installs have ranged from roughly 2.4 kW to over 26 kW. Rather than quote a generic statewide average, we build a specific proposal from your actual usage and utility crediting terms during your free consultation.

After your free consultation and site assessment, our NABCEP-certified crews handle system design, permitting with your municipality or county, and the physical install, usually a day or two for most homes. We then file the interconnection application and stay involved through utility approval and activation.

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 outright through cash or a loan, no. 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 through our financing partner, who can claim a separate federal credit for commercial-owned solar (Section 48E). We’ll walk you through exactly what applies to you during your free consultation.

Yes, and they vary by municipality. Guthrie Center, Stuart, Panora, and each smaller town runs its own permitting process, separate from the county’s rules for unincorporated areas. We handle the paperwork 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. A municipal utility like Panora’s or Stuart’s can move differently than Alliant or the co-op. We give you a realistic timeline for your specific address up front.

Not from an engineering standpoint, but it does change the details. Lake Panorama homes tend to have larger roofs, varied roof lines, and sometimes seasonal-use patterns, all of which affect how we size and lay out a system. Panora’s municipal electric utility also sets its own interconnection rules, separate from Alliant Energy or Guthrie County REC, so we confirm those terms directly with the city before designing your system.

Not yet on record, and we’d rather say so than invent a number. Guthrie County is a newer market for SolQ, backed by the same 1,179 completed Iowa installs statewide — including real proof just across the county line in Perry and Des Moines — a 4.8-star Google rating across 413 reviews, and an A+ BBB rating that stand behind every install we do complete.