Solar by state
Solar in Arkansas, by the numbers
Utilities and their rates, adoption, ten years of growth, batteries, ownership, state rules and installer licensing in Arkansas, from federal 2024 data.
Arkansas in brief
1.30% of Arkansas homes had rooftop solar in 2024, the 23rd-lowest of 51 (3.55% nationally). Power cost 12.32¢/kWh, below the national 16.48¢, and the average system was 8.87 kW. Entergy Arkansas LLC serves 41.2% of homes.
Where does Arkansas stand out?
The four measures, beyond price and adoption, on which Arkansas sits furthest from the middle of the ranking.
Arkansas solar in numbers, 2024
Every Arkansas figure next to the national one, with its place in the ranking (highest first, out of the jurisdictions reporting it).
| Measure | Arkansas | United States | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with a metered rooftop system | 1.30% | 3.55% | 23rd-lowest of 51 |
| Rooftop systems counted | 19,146 | 5,077,543 | 23rd-lowest of 51 |
| Average system size | 8.87 kW | 6.74 kW | 7th-highest of 51 |
| Residential price | 12.32¢/kWh | 16.48¢/kWh | 8th-lowest of 51 |
| Average monthly bill | $129.13 | $142.26 | 20th-lowest of 51 |
| Use per home | 12,580 kWh/yr | 10,359 kWh/yr | 11th-highest of 51 |
| Systems with a battery | 0.24% | 5.86% | 9th-lowest of 47 |
| Leased or on a PPA | 0.2% | 29.1% | 9th-lowest of 38 |
| Growth in systems, five years | 55.6% a year | — | 4th-highest of 51 |
| Minutes without power per customer | 528 | 297 (median state) | 17th-highest of 51 |
| Homes on a time-varying rate | 7.8% | 11.1% | 13th-highest of 51 |
| Installed rooftop capacity | 169.8 MW | 34,226 MW | — |
Source: US EIA, Form EIA-861, 2024 final release, retrieved 2 September 2026. The Arkansas ratios and ranks are HyreSolar calculations from EIA inputs.
Which utility serves Arkansas, and what does it charge?
The 8 largest utilities selling to Arkansas homes, by residential customers, with the price full-service customers paid and how many run net-metered solar.
| Utility | Type | Homes served | Price per kWh | Use per home, monthly | Net-metered systems |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Arkansas LLC | Investor-owned | 608,362 (41.2%) | 12.97¢ | 1,056 kWh | 7,813 (1.3%) |
| Southwestern Electric Power Company | Investor-owned | 108,102 (7.3%) | 11.53¢ | 850 kWh | 1,558 (1.4%) |
| Carroll Electric Co-op Corporation | Co-op | 101,154 (6.9%) | 12.25¢ | 1,087 kWh | 2,261 (2.2%) |
| First Electric Co-op Corporation | Co-op | 95,175 (6.4%) | 12.27¢ | 1,167 kWh | 1,906 (2.0%) |
| Ozarks Electric Co-op Corporation | Co-op | 72,076 (4.9%) | 13.03¢ | 1,028 kWh | 1,693 (2.4%) |
| Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company | Investor-owned | 58,218 (3.9%) | 11.49¢ | 1,028 kWh | 696 (1.2%) |
| Arkansas Valley Electric Co-op Corporation | Co-op | 54,372 (3.7%) | 13.33¢ | 1,105 kWh | 979 (1.8%) |
| North Arkansas Electric Co-op | Co-op | 36,355 (2.5%) | 12.86¢ | 964 kWh | 330 (0.91%) |
Source: US EIA, Form EIA-861 2024, Sales to Ultimate Customers and Net Metering, utility level, retrieved 5 October 2026. Shares are of 1,476,912 Arkansas residential accounts. Each Arkansas price is residential revenue divided by sales for full-service customers (HyreSolar calculation); a wires company’s price is its default-service price.
What do the Arkansas utility figures mean for a solar quote?
EIA-861 lists 28 utilities serving homes in Arkansas in 2024, across 1,476,912 residential accounts. The three largest, Entergy Arkansas LLC, Southwestern Electric Power Company and Carroll Electric Co-op Corporation, served 55.4% of those homes. By ownership: investor-owned utilities 52.8%, electric cooperatives 33.3%, municipal utilities 12.2% and small utilities EIA counts as a group 1.7%.
All 1,476,912 Arkansas residential accounts bought energy from the utility that delivers it; EIA counted none on a competitive supplier. So a Arkansas utility’s own tariff sets both the price you avoid and the credit for what you export.
Entergy Arkansas LLC, the largest, served 608,362 Arkansas homes (41.2%). Its full-service residential customers paid 12.97¢ per kWh, above the Arkansas average of 12.32¢, and used 1,056 kWh a month on average. 7,813 of its customers ran net-metered rooftop solar, 1.3% of its homes against 1.30% statewide.
Among the 25 Arkansas utilities with at least 5,000 residential customers and a full-service price, the price ran from 6.63¢ at City Water and Light Plant to 15.62¢ at Petit Jean Electric Co-op Corporation.
At the Arkansas average of 12,580 kWh a year, that 8.99¢ gap is worth about $1,131 a year (our arithmetic), so the same system offsets more money in one territory than the other. Price a quote on your own utility’s rate, not the 12.32¢ Arkansas average.
Rooftop solar is concentrated: Entergy Arkansas LLC alone accounts for 7,813 net-metered residential systems, about 41% of the 19,146 counted in Arkansas, and 23 Arkansas utilities reported any at all. The highest adoption among the larger utilities was at Ozarks Electric Co-op Corporation, where 2.4% of homes had a system.
What does power cost in Arkansas, and why does it matter?
Residential electricity in Arkansas averaged 12.32¢ per kilowatt-hour in 2024, the 8th-lowest of 51 and below the national 16.48¢. That is one of the lowest residential prices in the country. Each avoided kilowatt-hour is worth little, which can stretch payback in Arkansas whatever the sunshine.
The average Arkansas household bill was $129.13 a month ($1,550 a year), the 20th-lowest of 51, against $142.26 nationally. That $1,550 is the ceiling on what solar could save a typical Arkansas home, before fixed monthly charges.
Only 7.8% of Arkansas homes were on a time-varying rate in 2024 (11.1% nationally), so a flat rate is the likely starting point. 83.8% of Arkansas residential meters were smart meters (83.8% nationally), and a time-varying rate needs one. How time-of-use changes solar.
How many Arkansas homes have solar?
Arkansas had 19,146 rooftop systems on net metering in 2024, across 1,476,944 residential accounts: 1.30% of homes, the 23rd-lowest of 51. Adoption in Arkansas sits in the middle of the 51: neither an early market nor a late one.
The Arkansas market counted 2,750 more systems in 2024 than in 2023 and has grown 55.6% a year over five years, the 4th-highest of 51. Where growth has turned nationally.
How has Arkansas solar changed since 2014?
Arkansas counted 365 net-metered rooftop systems in 2014 and 19,146 in 2024, 52.5 times as many. The share of homes with one moved from 0.03% to 1.30%. The biggest one-year addition came in 2022, with 5,173 more systems than the year before.
| Year | Rooftop systems | Share of homes | Average size | Residential price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 365 | 0.03% | 5.1 kW | 9.51¢ |
| 2016 | 598 | 0.04% | 6.2 kW | 9.92¢ |
| 2018 | 1,396 | 0.10% | 7.4 kW | 9.81¢ |
| 2020 | 3,566 | 0.25% | 8.5 kW | 10.41¢ |
| 2022 | 11,735 | 0.81% | 8.5 kW | 12.05¢ |
| 2024 | 19,146 | 1.30% | 8.9 kW | 12.32¢ |
Source: US EIA, Form EIA-861 annual files 2014–2024, net-metered residential systems, retrieved 2 September 2026. Arkansas shares and sizes are HyreSolar calculations.
What does the Arkansas trend mean for a savings estimate?
Over the same years the Arkansas residential price went from 9.51¢ to 12.32¢ per kWh, up 30%, and the average system from 5.1 kW to 8.9 kW. A rate that has risen that far makes a 2024 bill a conservative base for a Arkansas savings estimate only if the trend continues, which nobody can promise.
How big is a typical Arkansas system?
The average Arkansas system was 8.87 kW in 2024, the 7th-highest of 51, against 6.74 kW nationally. Arkansas homes used 12,580 kilowatt-hours a year each, the 11th-highest of 51.
A Arkansas home using 12,580 kWh is an average, not a design input: size from your own twelve months of bills and usable roof with cost by system size and the system size calculator.
Who owns the systems in Arkansas?
In Arkansas, 0.2% of systems were third-party owned in 2024: leased, or on a power purchase agreement (PPA), rather than owned by the household. That is the 9th-lowest of 38, against 29.1% nationally.
Nearly every Arkansas system is owned by the household. A lease or power purchase agreement would be unusual here, which is a reason to read one closely. Whoever owns a Arkansas system claims any tax credit on it: Section 48E explained.
Do Arkansas homes add batteries?
In Arkansas, 0.24% of solar systems were paired with a battery in 2024 (45 systems), the 9th-lowest of 47. Arkansas’s share is well under half the national 5.86%.
On reliability, the average Arkansas customer went 528 minutes without power in 2024 counting major storms, and 202 minutes without them. The median state saw 297. Outages in every state.
Whether a battery pays in Arkansas turns on your utility’s export credit and your own outage history: what a home battery does.
How do you check a solar company’s license in Arkansas?
We found no dedicated state register for solar work in Arkansas, so we publish no company counts. That is not evidence of light regulation: electrical work can be licensed at state or local level even where solar is never named.
With 19,146 systems in Arkansas, the company quoting you may be based out of state. Ask which license it holds, in which state, and confirm it with that authority. What to do when the search comes back empty.
Which states are closest to Arkansas on adoption?
The six jurisdictions nearest to Arkansas’s 1.30% share of homes with rooftop solar.
Where do the Arkansas numbers come from?
The Arkansas figures are HyreSolar calculations from the Form EIA-861 annual files: 19,146 net-metered residential systems counted against 1,476,944 residential accounts, sizes as means, and 28 utility-level rows for the utility table, matched to net-metering records by EIA utility number.
The method and limits cover all 51; the Arkansas row is in the data as a CSV.
No Arkansas figure here is an estimate for one home: your roof, usage, utility tariff and tax position decide that.
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