Service areas
Kentucky isn't one solar market. Our solar consultants cover every Kentucky service area in person from our Lexington office, work remotely with clients nationwide, and start every analysis with the utility that serves your meter.
Kentucky isn't one solar market. Different utilities, co-ops, roofs and rules make different math.
Kentucky Utilities · Blue Grass Energy
In-person and remote solar consulting for Lexington and the Bluegrass: KU and co-op territories, horse-farm lease offers, historic overlays, and supplier questionnaires.
Louisville Gas and Electric · Salt River Electric
Independent solar consulting for Louisville metro: LG&E's NMS-2 export credit, preservation-district reviews, Green Tariff options, and surrounding co-op territories.
Duke Energy Kentucky · Owen Electric Cooperative
Independent solar advice for Northern Kentucky: Duke Energy Kentucky's Rider NM II, Owen Electric territory, Ohio-based quotes, and river-city historic overlays.
Kentucky Power · Big Sandy RECC
Independent solar analysis for eastern Kentucky: Kentucky Power and EKPC co-op rules, terrain shading, backup power questions, and reclaimed mine-land lease offers.
TVA-served co-ops: Warren RECC, Pennyrile RECC, West Kentucky RECC, Tri-County EMC · TVA-served city utilities: BGMU, Glasgow EPB, Murray Electric System, Hopkinsville Electric System
Independent solar analysis for western and south central Kentucky: TVA-served and Big Rivers co-ops, city utilities, poultry and grain farms, and lake homes.
Our Kentucky service areas cover the whole state. As an independent solar consultant, Center For Solar works from an office at 651 Perimeter Drive, Suite 440, in Lexington, and we meet clients in person anywhere in Kentucky when a meeting helps: walking a farm boundary with a landowner, presenting to a school board, or sitting down with a plant manager and a year of interval data. The rest happens by phone, video, and shared documents, which is also how we serve clients elsewhere in the US.
We’re fee-only. We don’t sell or install equipment, and no installer, lender, or developer pays us.
Under Kentucky law, each retail electric supplier has the exclusive right to serve its certified territory, so you can’t shop for a different utility. The one that serves your meter decides how exported power is credited, how interconnection works, and which programs exist. Two farms on the same county road can belong to different co-ops with different terms.
Broadly, Kentucky electric customers fall into four groups:
Each regional page lists the providers in that area, the places we work, and the local questions worth asking.
The engagement works the same way everywhere: a free fit call, a written scope with a flat fee, independent analysis, and a recorded walkthrough. Outside Kentucky, we start by reading your utility’s current tariff and your state’s rules with the same care. Proposal reviews, performance analytics, Scope 2 reporting, and installer RFPs travel well across state lines. If a question turns on local law or licensing, we tell you who to ask.
The same array can produce the same kilowatt-hours in Paducah and Pikeville and still pencil out differently.
What you earn for exported power ranges from a PSC-set dollar credit to terms set through TVA programs or a city utility board.
Forms, fees, review times, and meter requirements differ by utility. We track every step until permission to operate.
LG&E and KU customers can compare on-site solar with the Green Tariff. Other territories offer different programs, or none.
Historic overlays, zoning rules, and HOA covenants vary by city and county. We assemble and track the administrative packets.
Step by step
Twenty minutes, free. We learn the situation and list the documents we'll need.
You upload bills, proposals, or monitoring exports, and we confirm the written scope and flat fee before work begins.
We work from your documents, your utility's current tariff, and public data. Most engagements need no site visit.
You receive the written report and a recorded call that walks through it, plus one round of follow-up questions.
Next step
Send us a recent electric bill. The utility name printed on it tells us more than your ZIP code does.
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