East Peoria solar + battery
Solar and Battery Storage in East Peoria, IL
Local energy
East Peoria energy, by the numbers
52%
Illinois home electricity rates are up about 52% over the past five years¹
12.2¢
Ameren Illinois’ summer supply price rose from about 8.1 cents per kWh in 2024 to about 12.2 cents in 2025³
12
In June 2026, storms and 12 confirmed tornadoes crossed central Illinois⁴
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Why East Peoria homeowners are adding batteries
Ameren Illinois delivers power to East Peoria homes, whether you buy your electricity supply from Ameren or from another supplier. Here’s what shapes a solar and battery plan here.
Credits for extra solar changed in 2025
If you applied for net metering on or after January 1, 2025, the power you send to the grid earns credit only for the supply part of your Ameren bill, not delivery charges. Those credits carry over until you use them². Homes that went solar before then generally keep their original net metering for the life of the system. A battery lets you use more of your own solar in the evening instead of exporting it.
Supply prices jumped
Ameren Illinois’ summer supply price rose from about 8.1 cents per kWh in 2024 to about 12.2 cents in 2025, after a spike in the regional market for power plant capacity³. Solar you make and use at home isn’t exposed to those swings.
Storms take rooftop solar offline too
In June 2026, storms and 12 confirmed tornadoes crossed central Illinois⁴, and Ameren’s remaining outages afterward were mostly in the Bloomington, Peoria, Champaign and Danville areas⁵. Rooftop solar shuts off in an outage unless there’s a battery behind it.
Built for central Illinois winters
Solar panels work more efficiently in cold weather, and most snow melts or blows off them quickly⁶. They make less power on short winter days and more in summer, so a design is based on a full year of sun and use.
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What a Sunrun battery does for an East Peoria home
Power when you need it most
Uses more of your own solar
Ready for winter storms
Why Sunrun
Why East Peoria homeowners choose Sunrun
1 million homes and counting
No one has more installation expertise.
We handle the paperwork
Our team takes care of design, permits, inspections and Ameren Illinois’ approval to connect, so you don’t have to chase any of it.
Care for the life of your plan
Sunrun Subscription customers get 24/7 monitoring, maintenance and repairs for the full length of their agreement.
Certified in Illinois
Sunrun holds Illinois Commerce Commission certification P2018-0817 to install distributed generation like rooftop solar.
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Trusted by the best
Sunrun Named to the Fortune 1000 2026 List Following Strong Revenue Growth
2026 Consumer Affairs Buyer's Choice Award "Best Customer Service"
Sunrun Ranks No. 5 on TIME’s World’s Most Impactful Companies 2026
2025 Winner of Good Housekeeping Home Reno Awards
Powering Illinois: Easy process. Better technology. Happy customers.
Honolulu solar and battery FAQs
It depends on your roof, your energy use and how much of your home you want backed up. With a Sunrun Subscription, you can get solar and a battery for $0 to little down and a predictable monthly payment while Sunrun owns and maintains the system. You can also buy it upfront or with a loan; your advisor will price both for free.
Not as a new customer. Hawaiian Electric closed net metering to new applicants in 2015, and the programs that followed (Customer Grid-Supply, Customer Self-Supply, Customer Grid-Supply Plus and Smart Export) are closed to new applicants too. New systems connect under Smart Renewable Energy Export, which credits exported power by time of day, or Smart Renewable Energy Non-Export, which keeps all of your power at home. Homes already on net metering can generally stay on it.
Not always, but it usually gets more from your panels here. Under Smart Renewable Energy Export, Oahu credits for power exported between 9am and 5pm are 13.5 cents per kWh, while the standard residential rate starts at 45.81 cents per kWh, so solar you store and use yourself is generally worth more than solar you send out at midday. A battery also keeps your essentials running in an outage.
It depends on what you run after the sun goes down and what you want backed up. Air conditioning, an electric water heater and an EV charger draw far more than lights, a refrigerator and Wi-Fi. We size the system from your Hawaiian Electric bill history and talk through which circuits matter most. Our battery duration guide shows how to stretch a charge.
It may. Hawaiian Electric's Bring Your Own Device Plus program pays an upfront incentive based on the battery capacity you commit, plus monthly bill credits for batteries that send power to the grid during a two-hour window you pick each day. Battery Bonus, the earlier program, is closed. When a battery is leased, Hawaiian Electric pays the upfront incentive to the leasing company, so ask your advisor how the program works with the plan you choose.
If you buy your system, you may be able to claim Hawaii's Renewable Energy Technologies Income Tax Credit, generally 35% of the cost, up to $5,000 per system, but a 2026 state law adds income limits and a yearly statewide cap starting with 2027 tax years. Federal tax credit rules for homeowner-owned solar changed at the end of 2025. Ask a tax advisor what you qualify for. With a Sunrun Subscription, Sunrun owns the system, so the state credit is not yours to claim; your monthly price is what you pay.
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📞 Phone | 🕒 Operating Hours (Hawaii time ) | 📍 Address |
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Need an instant quote or have questions? | 2839 Mokumoa St, |
We also serve communities near Honolulu
In addition to Honolulu, our Oahu team installs solar and batteries in the towns below. Don't see yours? Enter your ZIP code in the quote form to check your address. On another island? Pick your local page. See every Hawaii page.
Oahu
Aiea | Ewa Beach | Haleiwa | Hauula |
Kaaawa | Kailua | Kaneohe | Kapolei |
Laie | Mililani | Pearl City | Wahiawa |
Waialua | Waianae | Waimanalo | Waipahu |
Other islands
Sources and notes
Sunrun Price of Power, sunrun.com/learn-center/price-of-power?selectedState=hi, using U.S. Energy Information Administration data (2021-2025 annual, July 2026 monthly). Viewed October 6, 2026. Matches EIA Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, July 2026 (Hawaii 48.00 cents, U.S. 18.31 cents per kWh), released September 24, 2026.
Hawaiian Electric, Service Reliability, historical SAIDI data (non-normalized, all events): Oahu 256.31 minutes in 2025 and 521.35 minutes in January to March 2026. hawaiianelectric.com/about-us/performance-scorecards-and-metrics/service-reliability. Viewed October 6, 2026.
Hawaiian Electric, Effective Rate Summary, Oahu Schedule R, effective October 1, 2026, and Oahu Energy Cost Recovery filing for October 2026 (500 kWh bill: $246.44). Viewed October 6, 2026.
Hawaiian Electric, Previous Renewable Programs and Smart Renewable Energy Export (Oahu export rates for 2024-2026). hawaiianelectric.com/products-and-services/smart-renewable-energy-programs. Viewed October 6, 2026.
Hawaiian Electric, Public Safety Power Shutoff (Oahu areas: Waianae, Makaha, Nanakuli, Maili and Kaena Point). hawaiianelectric.com/safety-and-outages/wildfire-safety-and-mitigation/public-safety-power-shutoff. Viewed October 6, 2026.
Hawaiian Electric, Bring Your Own Device Plus. hawaiianelectric.com/products-and-services/customer-incentive-programs/bring-your-own-device-plus. Viewed October 6, 2026.
*Actual savings vary by customer. Backup time depends on battery charge, the circuits backed up and household use. Home batteries are not designed to power life-support or other lifesaving medical equipment. Program terms, rates and tax rules change; your advisor will confirm what applies to your home. Sunrun's customer agreements contain the terms of all Sunrun warranties, guarantees and maintenance.