Solar Panels in Silver Spring, MD: 2026 Cost, Pepco Net Metering & Savings

Silver Spring and the bill

Silver Spring is Pepco. Apartment roofs are rarely the tenant's to contract. Silver Spring has more modest houses than Bethesda and the same Pepco relationship. Bungalows can be good layouts if the roof is sound and unshaded. Multifamily buildings are a large share of the housing and usually not a single-owner project. The resource matches the rest of Montgomery County in our rounded figure. The 2025 EIA residential average for Maryland was 19.53 cents per kWh. That statewide figure is what our calculator uses. It is not the Pepco tariff. A rounded solar resource for this metro is about 4.4 peak sun hours a day.

Export credits and any SREC or REC

Silver Spring follows Maryland's net-metering statute, then the rider of Pepco. House Bill 1532 keeps the current program open only until a successor begins. The Public Service Commission notice says that successor framework is due by February 1, 2027 and the new program begins July 1, 2027, so current net metering closes to new customers by that date at the latest, and a capacity cap can close it sooner. Eligible systems placed in service from July 1, 2024 through January 1, 2028 can apply for Brighter Tomorrow certified SRECs, which count at 1.5 times for a supplier's compliance. On November 4, 2026, Flett Exchange showed a $58.50 sell-now quote for the 2025 and 2026 certified vintages. That quote moves, certification has megawatt caps and a PSC fee, and it is not income you are owed.

Roofs, climate, permits, and HOAs

1920s to 1950s houses, postwar ramblers, and newer infill. Infill roofs are small. Older roofs need an age check before an array. A Silver Spring permit comes from the local building department, not from Pepco. An HOA can add its own review. This page does not quote a MD permit fee or an approval, because both depend on the address. Confirm roof ownership. Name Pepco. Do not blend a commercial meter into a house proposal.

Estimated cost range

Estimated cost range for Silver Spring, labeled as an estimate and not a local quote: Berkeley Lab's August 2026 update put 2025 host-owned residential systems at about $3.60 per watt before incentives, about $3.00 per watt in the cash subset, and about $4.50 per watt in the loan subset. The median size in that set was 7.7 kW. Silver Spring is about 4.4 peak sun hours a day, against about 4.3 statewide. The federal residential credit under 26 U.S.C. § 25D ended for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025. The IRS treats that expenditure as made when the original installation is completed.

• Cash

  $3.00/W

  $23,100

  Subset classified as cash

• Middle published case

  $3.60/W

  $27,720

  All host-owned systems

• Loan

  $4.50/W

  $34,650

  Financed subset, before interest

Before incentives. A loan price here excludes interest. The federal residential credit under section 25D ended for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025. Berkeley Lab, U.S. Distributed Solar and Storage, August 2026 data update.