Arkansas solar leads
Arkansas added 62.2 MW of small-scale solar in the year to July 2026 in the EIA’s Electric Power Monthly, a 17.9% rise, and rewrote its net metering law in 2023. Summit Leads supplies solar leads in Arkansas by real-time ping/post, with filters and routing agreed during onboarding.
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Arkansas facts for solar lead buyers
| Fact | Value Source |
|---|---|
| Small-scale solar PV capacity, July 2026 | 410.3 MW (EIA estimate, July 2026), the 26th highest of the 49 states with an EIA estimateElectric Power Monthly, Table 6.2.B: Net Summer Capacity Using Primarily Renewable Energy Sources and by State U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Small-scale solar PV capacity, July 2025 | 348.1 MW (EIA estimate, July 2025), so 62.2 MW or 17.9% was added in the twelve months to July 2026Electric Power Monthly, Table 6.2.B: Net Summer Capacity Using Primarily Renewable Energy Sources and by State U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Solar resource in Little Rock, the largest city | 5.12 kWh per square meter per day on a fixed, south-facing array tilted 20 degrees (PVWatts version 8, typical-year data, checked October 9, 2026)PVWatts Calculator (version 8): Little Rock, Arkansas National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL) |
| Average residential electricity price, 2024 | 12.32 cents per kWh (2023: 12.25 cents; EIA Form EIA-861 data, 2024), the eighth lowest of the 50 statesElectric Power Annual, Table 2.10: Average Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector, by State U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Single-family detached share of housing units | 70.0% (975,991 of 1,394,673 housing units; ACS 5-year 2020-2024, table B25024), the tenth highest of the 50 statesTable B25024, Units in Structure: Arkansas (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Owner-occupied single-family detached homes | 698,781, or 87.3% of 800,864 owner-occupied homes (ACS 5-year 2020-2024, table B25032)Table B25032, Tenure by Units in Structure: Arkansas (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Net metering law | Ark. Code 23-18-601 et seq., rewritten by Act 278 of 2023 (Senate Bill 295), approved March 13, 2023 (checked October 9, 2026)Act 278 of 2023 (Senate Bill 295), amending Arkansas Code Title 23, Chapter 18, Subchapter 6 (net metering) Arkansas State Legislature |
| Residential net-metering facility size limit | The lesser of 25 kW alternating current or 100% of the customer’s highest monthly usage in the previous twelve months (Ark. Code 23-18-603, as amended in 2023)Act 278 of 2023 (Senate Bill 295), amending Arkansas Code Title 23, Chapter 18, Subchapter 6 (net metering) Arkansas State Legislature |
| Deadline to keep the earlier net metering terms | A standard interconnection agreement submitted before September 30, 2024 keeps the terms in effect before December 31, 2022 until June 1, 2040 (Ark. Code 23-18-604, as amended in 2023)Act 278 of 2023 (Senate Bill 295), amending Arkansas Code Title 23, Chapter 18, Subchapter 6 (net metering) Arkansas State Legislature |
| Billing for later net-metering facilities | The utility elects one of two rate structures: exports credited at its avoided cost, or netting at the retail rate with a monthly grid charge (Ark. Code 23-18-606 and 23-18-607, as of October 9, 2026)Act 278 of 2023 (Senate Bill 295), amending Arkansas Code Title 23, Chapter 18, Subchapter 6 (net metering) Arkansas State Legislature |
| Net excess generation credits | Carried forward without expiring; credits older than 24 months may be sold back at avoided cost once they total at least $100 (Ark. Code 23-18-604, as of October 9, 2026)Act 278 of 2023 (Senate Bill 295), amending Arkansas Code Title 23, Chapter 18, Subchapter 6 (net metering) Arkansas State Legislature |
| Renewable energy credits from a home system | The property of the net-metering customer that generated them (Ark. Code 23-18-604, as of October 9, 2026)Act 278 of 2023 (Senate Bill 295), amending Arkansas Code Title 23, Chapter 18, Subchapter 6 (net metering) Arkansas State Legislature |
Last reviewed: October 9, 2026. A summary for education, not legal advice.
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How much small-scale solar Arkansas already has
The EIA publishes a monthly estimate of behind-the-meter solar for each state: systems under 1 MW at homes, farms and businesses, most of them on roofs. According to Table 6.2.B of the Electric Power Monthly, Arkansas had 410.3 MW in July 2026 against 348.1 MW in July 2025. The gain of 62.2 MW is a 17.9% rise in one year, and the July 2026 total placed Arkansas 26th of the 49 states with an EIA estimate.
| Month | Capacity (MW) | Source |
|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 348.1 | EIA EPM Table 6.2.B, July 2025 |
| July 2026 | 410.3 | EIA EPM Table 6.2.B, July 2026 |
These are capacity estimates, not counts of homeowners shopping for solar. For a buyer they describe the stock of systems already connected in the state, which matters to companies that add batteries, expand arrays or service existing equipment as well as to installers of new systems.
Sunlight in Little Rock
Little Rock is the largest Arkansas city in the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2025 estimates. For that city, the PVWatts Calculator, which NREL built and the National Laboratory of the Rockies now runs, gives 5.12 kWh per square meter per day of solar radiation on the array (checked October 9, 2026).
Method in one line: the PVWatts version 8 default system, a fixed open-rack array facing due south at a 20-degree tilt, placed at Little Rock’s Census gazetteer point and run on the National Solar Radiation Database typical year. The figure compares places on an equal footing; a given roof, with its own pitch, direction and shade, will differ.
PVWatts also appears in Arkansas law. Under Ark. Code 23-18-607, as rewritten by Act 278 of 2023, a utility that nets at the retail rate works out its monthly grid charge from the PVWatts output of a one-kilowatt fixed-tilt system at a point central to its service territory, using a DC to AC ratio of 1.1.
Arkansas residential electricity price
The EIA’s annual table gives the average price residential customers paid across all utilities in each state. Arkansas is listed below as a sourced fact, with no conclusion drawn from it.
| Year | Cents per kWh | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12.25 | EIA Electric Power Annual, Table 2.10 |
| 2024 | 12.32 | EIA Electric Power Annual, Table 2.10 |
Arkansas net metering after Act 278 of 2023
This section is general information, not legal advice. It summarizes official sources as of October 9, 2026; check the current text of each rule before relying on it.
Arkansas sets net metering in statute. Act 278 of 2023 (Senate Bill 295, approved March 13, 2023) rewrote Arkansas Code 23-18-601 and the sections after it, and directed the Public Service Commission to approve conforming utility rate schedules by December 31, 2023 (checked October 9, 2026). For a residential customer, a net-metering facility may be no larger than the lesser of 25 kW of alternating current or 100% of the customer’s highest monthly usage in the previous twelve months.
The act splits customers by date. A customer who submitted a standard interconnection agreement before September 30, 2024, or met one of the other conditions in 23-18-604, stays under the rates, terms and conditions in effect before December 31, 2022 until June 1, 2040. Other customers are billed under one of two structures the utility chooses in 23-18-606: either every kilowatt hour sent to the grid is credited at the utility’s avoided cost, or energy is netted at the retail rate and a monthly grid charge under 23-18-607 is added.
Two more provisions in the 2023 act bear on a home system. Net excess generation credits carry forward without expiring, and credits older than 24 months may be sold back to the utility at avoided cost once the payment would be at least $100. Renewable energy credits created by the system belong to the customer that generated them.
Municipal utilities follow their own ordinances under 23-18-605, so the date and the type of utility both shape the terms a homeowner is offered.
Detached homes and owners in Arkansas
Most residential solar goes on single-family houses whose owners sign the contract. The Census Bureau’s table B25024 (ACS 5-year 2020-2024) counts 975,991 single-family detached homes among Arkansas’s 1,394,673 housing units, or 70.0%, the tenth highest share of the 50 states. Table B25032 puts 698,781 owner-occupied homes in detached houses: 87.3% of the 800,864 homes their owners live in.
The age and value of the housing are on Arkansas window replacement leads, and heating fuels and degree days are on Arkansas HVAC leads; this page does not repeat them.
Arkansas counties by owner-occupied detached homes
The ten Arkansas counties with the most owner-occupied single-family detached homes are below, with all owner-occupied homes in each county and the detached share of them, from the ACS 5-year 2020-2024, table B25032 at county level. The figures describe housing only and say nothing about where leads come from.
| County | Owner-occupied detached homes | Owner-occupied homes | Detached share of owner homes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulaski | 90,910 | 98,266 | 92.5% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| Benton | 70,876 | 75,000 | 94.5% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| Washington | 50,167 | 54,053 | 92.8% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| Saline | 33,985 | 39,268 | 86.5% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| Sebastian | 29,973 | 32,034 | 93.6% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| Faulkner | 27,371 | 30,718 | 89.1% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| Craighead | 25,150 | 26,712 | 94.2% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| Garland | 24,214 | 30,296 | 79.9% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| Lonoke | 18,881 | 21,403 | 88.2% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
| White | 16,272 | 20,482 | 79.4% | ACS 2020-2024, B25032 (county) |
Benton (94.5%) and Craighead (94.2%) have the highest detached shares among the ten, while Garland (79.9%) and White (79.4%) are the only two below 80%, in the 2020-2024 ACS county data. Pulaski, Benton and Washington together hold 211,953 of the owner-occupied detached homes listed.
Putting the Arkansas figures to work
Read together, the facts above describe a state of mostly detached owner homes with a fast-growing but mid-sized solar base and a net metering law that changed in 2023. Three points for a buyer planning Arkansas coverage:
- Growth from a mid-sized base. The 17.9% rise between July 2025 and July 2026 in the EIA’s small-scale estimates came on top of a total that ranked 26th, so new systems sit beside a smaller installed stock than in the largest solar states.
- Houses dominate owner housing. With 87.3% of owner-occupied homes detached in the 2020-2024 ACS, a buyer that only installs on single-family homes loses little by excluding other structure types.
- The billing date matters. Under Act 278 of 2023, systems interconnected on the later schedule are billed under a structure the utility elects, so installers confirm the serving utility and its current tariff early in a conversation.
None of these points says how many leads exist or where they come from. They describe housing, installed solar and state law that an Arkansas solar buyer works within.
What Arkansas solar buyers filter on
A solar buyer in Arkansas normally narrows its order with a few lead fields, each tied to a fact above:
- Homeowner status: the owner signs for the system and for any interconnection agreement; see the owner-occupied detached homes above.
- Project type: the kind of solar project the homeowner asked about, in general terms; the exact options are set when the solar form is finalized.
- Timeframe: whether the homeowner plans to install soon or is gathering information.
- ZIP code: buyers list the ZIP codes their crews reach, and the county table shows where detached owner homes are concentrated.
The filters for Arkansas solar leads are agreed with each buyer during onboarding. Exclusive or shared routing for solar leads is agreed with each buyer during onboarding. The fields a solar lead contains are shown on the sample solar lead.
Where buyers filter in Arkansas
Arkansas has six metro areas, listed below by the number of residents on the Arkansas side in the Census Bureau’s July 1, 2025 estimates. Fort Smith reaches into Oklahoma and Texarkana into Texas, so their figures are whole-metro totals. Solar installers often work outward from one of these hubs into the surrounding rural ZIP codes. Each buyer’s coverage area is agreed during onboarding, inside these metro areas or outside them.
- Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway: 777,607 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
- Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers: 622,177 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
- Fort Smith, AR-OK: 234,140 (July 1, 2025 estimate, whole metro area)
- Jonesboro: 139,440 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
- Hot Springs: 99,695 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
- Texarkana, TX-AR: 146,816 (July 1, 2025 estimate, whole metro area)
Source: Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area population estimates, Vintage 2025 (cbsa-est2025-alldata), U.S. Census Bureau.
Consent records for Arkansas solar leads
Each Arkansas solar lead carries the TCPATCPAThe Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the federal law that governs telemarketing calls and texts, autodialers, prerecorded voice messages and the Do Not Call Registry. Glossary consent record captured on the form. Arkansas calling rules beyond the federal ones are summarized under Arkansas in the state telemarketing laws table, and buyers of other verticals in the state can start at leads in Arkansas.
Arkansas solar lead questions
How large can a home solar system be under Arkansas net metering?
For a residential customer, Ark. Code 23-18-603, as rewritten by Act 278 of 2023, caps a net-metering facility at the lesser of 25 kW of alternating current or 100% of the customer’s highest monthly usage in the previous twelve months. This is general information, not legal advice.
Which Arkansas solar customers keep the net metering terms from before 2023?
Under Ark. Code 23-18-604, a customer who submitted a standard interconnection agreement before September 30, 2024, or met the other listed conditions, keeps the terms in effect before December 31, 2022 until June 1, 2040. This is general information, not legal advice.
How fast is small-scale solar growing in Arkansas?
The EIA’s Electric Power Monthly, Table 6.2.B estimates 410.3 MW in July 2026, up from 348.1 MW in July 2025: 62.2 MW, or 17.9%, in twelve months.
Which Arkansas county has the most owner-occupied detached homes?
Pulaski County, with 90,910, followed by Benton (70,876) and Washington (50,167), in the Census Bureau’s ACS 5-year county data for 2020-2024 (table B25032).
Could an Arkansas solar order be limited to a list of ZIP codes?
Coverage and filters are agreed with each buyer during onboarding; email us the ZIP codes you want covered.
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