Put the sun to work on roofs you already own.
Kongra Solar develops rooftop solar on poultry houses and farm buildings in northwest North Carolina and northeast Georgia. You own the system, the power, and the tax credit. We size it to your bills, bring in a licensed contractor, and handle the incentives.
Ground-mount solar takes fields. Rooftop solar takes nothing.
A poultry house is a long, unshaded roof sitting on top of a large, year-round electric load: fans, heaters, lighting and feed lines running every day of the year. That is close to the ideal solar site, and it is already yours.
- The field stays a field. No panels on productive ground, no lease taking acres out of rotation.
- Power is used where it is made. Systems are sized to what the farm actually consumes, because the co-ops in our region pay very little for exported power.
- Federal policy now favors it. Recent restrictions on rural solar target ground-mount on farmland. Roof-mounted systems are explicitly unaffected.
What Kongra does, and does not do
We are the developer. We find the fit, size the system to your bills, model the payback, bring in a licensed electrical contractor who contracts directly with you, and coordinate the tax credit and USDA paperwork.
We do not own the system, sell you power, or hold the construction contract. You own the asset from day one. Kongra is paid a development fee, agreed in writing before anything is built.
Four steps, and the first two cost you nothing.
Send us twelve months of bills
Your electric bills tell us the load, the rate, and the utility's rules. That is enough for a straight answer on whether solar fits your operation.
We size it and run the numbers
The system is sized to your consumption, not oversized to chase exports. You get a payback model built on your bills, with every assumption shown.
A licensed contractor builds it
Solar is electrical work in North Carolina, and projects this size require an unlimited-class electrical contractor. They contract with you directly; we manage the process.
We handle the incentives
The 30% federal credit, five-year depreciation, and the USDA REAP loan guarantee. If your operation cannot use the whole credit, it can be sold for cash.
Built for working farms, not for investors.
- Broiler and layer operations with four or more houses. That is the size where the economics start to work. Larger complexes work better still.
- Dairies and other high-load farm buildings. Milking parlors, coolers and pumps carry the same kind of steady load.
- Owners who want to own. The farmer owns the system. That keeps the credit, the depreciation, and the USDA eligibility in your hands, and it is the only structure North Carolina law allows.
- Roofs in reasonable condition. A system lasts 25 years or more, so the roof under it should too. We look at that first.
Where we work
We start close to home and drive to the farm. Outside these counties, ask anyway.
The credit is what makes a financed system work.
Without the federal credit, a bank-financed rooftop system on a poultry farm does not pay for itself fast enough to cover the loan. With it, it does. That is why the deadline below matters more than any equipment choice.
Taken against federal income tax in the year the system goes into service. If your operation cannot absorb it, the credit can be sold to a buyer for cash under the 2022 transferability rules.
Solar equipment depreciates over five years, which puts most of the remaining cost against taxable farm income early in the system's life.
The Rural Energy for America Program guarantees up to 80% of a lender's loan on terms that can run to 40 years. Grant funding under REAP has been paused since spring 2026; guarantees are still being issued.
Under current federal law, a commercial solar system must be placed in service by this date to claim the 30% credit. Design, structural review, utility interconnection, permitting and construction all sit in front of that date, and contractor calendars fill up. Starting in the next few months is the difference between claiming the credit and missing it.
Incentive rules change. Everything above reflects federal law and USDA program status as we understand them today, and we confirm the current position with your accountant and lender before any commitment. Nothing on this page is tax advice.
What an eight-house broiler farm might look like.
These are screening figures from our model for a typical eight-house operation on a North Carolina co-op, sized to about 80% of the farm's annual usage. They are here so you can see the shape of the deal, not as a quote. Your bills, your roof, and a contractor's price replace every one of them.
The pattern holds at other sizes: payback stays roughly the same per house, so a four-house farm and a twelve-house farm see similar years-to-payback with very different dollar amounts.
| Scenario | Simple payback |
|---|---|
| Federal credit and depreciation | about 7 to 8 years |
| Credit, depreciation and a REAP grant | about 4 years |
| No federal credit | 11 years or more |
Assumes a roughly 200 kW rooftop system and an average retail rate near 11 cents per kilowatt-hour. Higher rates shorten payback; lower rates lengthen it.
Kongra Solar
Kongra Solar was started in 2025 by Matt Roberts, whose background is in commercial rooftop solar, with one idea: the best place for a solar panel is a roof that is already there, above a building that already uses the power. The name and the mark come from the gorilla and the cobra, strength and patience, both of which a farm deal needs.
We are a small North Carolina company. When you call, you get the person who will run your project.
Tell us about your farm.
County, number of houses, and roughly what you pay for power in a year is enough to start. We will tell you honestly whether it fits, and what the next step would be.