Serving Los Lunas
Get Solar Installation in Los Lunas, NM
Solar installation in Los Lunas runs $15,000–$35,000 before incentives, and with 300+ sunny days and roughly 6.3 peak sun hours over the Rio Grande valley, production here is excellent. Newer Huning Ranch and Los Lunas Hills homes often have solar-ready pitched shingle roofs the day we first visit.
300+ days of sunshine per year in Los Lunas. Los Lunas is PNM territory: exported solar earns full retail-rate credit, 1:1, with credits banking on your bill from sunny months into winter.
We serve these Los Lunas neighborhoods:
Los Lunas Hills, Huning Ranch, Valencia, Tome, El Cerro
Solar Installation in Los Lunas: What to Know
300+ days of sunshine
Sun Days
$155/month avg.
Avg. Electric Bill
Excellent — 6.3 peak sun hours
Solar Potential
Moderate — monsoon season
Hail Risk
Village of Los Lunas Community Development
Permit Office
Newer subdivisions & valley acreage homes
Housing Stock
Two Kinds of Los Lunas Rooftops
Los Lunas solar splits neatly along the town's two kinds of housing. In Huning Ranch, Los Lunas Hills, and the newer subdivisions off the I-25 corridor, homes came out of the ground with modern pitched shingle roofs — many are effectively solar-ready, with clean planes and years of shingle life ahead. Design there is about orientation and production modeling, not remediation.
Out in the valley — Tome, El Cerro, Valencia — the calculus changes. Acreage properties often run wells and irrigation that push usage well past a subdivision home's, which strengthens the case for solar, but the home itself may need roof or electrical panel work before an array goes up. We evaluate all of it in one site visit and sequence the work honestly.
The Valley Sun Is the Easy Part
With 300+ sunny days and about 6.3 peak sun hours over the Rio Grande valley, production is never the question in Los Lunas. The question is matching the system to the property — and that's a house-by-house answer.
Residential solar in New Mexico costs $15,000–$35,000 before incentives, and most homeowners cut their electric bill by $1,500–$2,400 per year. New Mexico's state-level incentive stack — a refundable 10% state tax credit (up to $6,000), a 100% property tax exemption on the value solar adds, and a gross receipts tax exemption on equipment — brings the real upfront cost down meaningfully, whatever your utility territory.
How the 2026 Incentives Work
The federal residential solar tax credit ended December 31, 2025 for homeowner-purchased systems, but New Mexico's own stack is unchanged:
- 10% NM Solar Market Development Tax Credit — Refundable, up to $6,000 per system, certified through EMNRD. We handle the paperwork for every customer.
- 100% property tax exemption — The value solar adds to your home is exempt from NM property tax. Permanent, automatic, no application.
- Gross receipts tax exemption — Solar equipment is exempt from NM's ~7.5% gross receipts tax.
- Federal value via lease or PPA — Third-party-owned systems can still capture the commercial federal credit, passed through as lower lease or PPA pricing. We'll walk you through whether owning or leasing pencils better for your situation.
- $0-down options — Cash, loan, lease, and PPA structures, matched to your tax picture.
Your exact bill savings depend on your utility's rates and how it credits the energy you export — we model both for Los Lunas homes before you sign anything, so the estimate you see reflects PNM's actual tariff rather than a national average.
Built for High-Desert Conditions
Solar in New Mexico has to survive conditions most national installers never design for: UV that degrades cheap components years early, high-altitude wind loads, monsoon-season water management, and big day-night temperature swings. Our team is led by NABCEP-certified professionals with over a decade in this climate. We use tier-1 panels and microinverters rated for high-desert service, and every system carries a 25-year performance guarantee.
One Contractor, Whole-Home Thinking
Because Epex also installs roofing, batteries, windows, and electrical panel upgrades, we look at your whole house before sizing a system. If your roof has less than 10 years of life left, we'll tell you — and price the reroof-plus-solar bundle so panels never have to come off mid-life. If your electrical panel can't support solar safely, we upgrade it under the same project, one permit package, one crew, one timeline.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most Los Lunas systems run $15,000–$35,000 before incentives, and New Mexico's refundable 10% state tax credit — up to $6,000, certified through EMNRD — brings that down meaningfully. With the average local electric bill around $155 a month, we size and quote from your actual PNM usage history, not a national calculator, so the estimate you see reflects how your household really uses power.
Usually excellent ones. Huning Ranch and Los Lunas Hills homes were built with modern pitched shingle roofs, and many have clean south- or west-facing planes with decades of roof life left — the arrays practically design themselves. Older valley homes in Tome, El Cerro, and Valencia deserve a closer look first: we check roof condition and electrical capacity at the site visit before quoting anything.
Yes — and high-usage properties are often where solar makes the strongest case. Wells and irrigation pumps on Tome, El Cerro, and Valencia acreage add steady load a typical subdivision home never sees, and much of that pumping happens in daylight, right when panels produce. We size from a full year of usage, not a guess, and design with those circuits in mind.
Los Lunas is PNM territory, so exported solar energy earns a full retail-rate credit, 1:1, banked on your bill month to month. With 300+ sunny days a year in the Rio Grande valley, most Los Lunas solar homes bank enough summer credit to carry their winter usage.
The Village of Los Lunas Community Development department issues building and electrical permits inside village limits; homes in unincorporated Valencia County — Tome, El Cerro, Valencia — permit through the county. Epex routes and files the right package either way, along with PNM interconnection paperwork for solar and battery projects.
We schedule Los Lunas and Valencia County work in dedicated crew blocks from our Albuquerque base, about 25 minutes up I-25 — close enough for same-week service calls, structured enough that your install doesn't lose days to commuting. Huning Ranch, Los Lunas Hills, Tome, El Cerro, and Valencia are all regular territory for us.