Form 5695: Residential Energy Credits
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IRS Form 5695, Residential Energy Credits, is the federal solar tax credit form and the home energy efficiency credit form. Part I figures the Residential Clean Energy Credit: 30% of the cost of solar, small wind, geothermal, batteries of at least 3 kWh and fuel cells. Part II figures the capped Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit for insulation, Energy Star doors and windows, heat pumps, water heaters and home energy audits. Both credits end with the 2025 tax year, so the 2025 form filed in 2026 is the last one for new installations. Results go to Schedule 3 (Form 1040), lines 5a and 5b. JustFill fills the official PDF in your browser; the first clean completed PDF download is included at no charge.
IRS Form 5695 calculates the residential energy tax credits that reduce what you owe when you make qualifying clean-energy or efficiency improvements to your home. JustFill makes it fillable in your browser. Part I handles the Residential Clean Energy Credit (30% of the cost of solar, wind, geothermal, fuel cell and battery systems, with no dollar cap except for fuel cells). Part II handles the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit (insulation, qualifying windows and doors, heat pumps, water heaters, furnaces, electrical panel upgrades and home energy audits, subject to annual limits of $1,200 plus a separate $2,000 for heat pumps and biomass systems). The credit flows to Schedule 3 and offsets your income tax. Both credits were terminated by the July 2025 law commonly called the One, Big, Beautiful Bill (Public Law 119-21): Part II is not allowed for property placed in service after December 31, 2025, and Part I is not allowed for expenditures made after that date, an expenditure counting when installation is completed. The 2025 form, filed in 2026, is therefore the last one for new installations; only a Part I carryforward continues.
The blank 2025 Form 5695 is a free four-page PDF from the IRS at irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f5695.pdf, with the separate instructions at irs.gov/instructions/i5695 (they contain the two credit-limit worksheets). Earlier years are at irs.gov/forms-pubs/prior-year: search for Form 5695 to get the 2024, 2023 or 2019 edition if you are amending an old return, because each year has its own lines and limits. Open the same blank in JustFill to type your costs and QMIDs on screen; the first clean completed PDF download is included at no charge. JustFill does not compute the credit-limit worksheets or file your return.
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Costs of solar electric, solar water heating, wind, geothermal, fuel cell, and battery storage property.
The amount you paid for each qualifying system, including labor for on-site installation.
Multiplies your costs by 30% (line 6b); fuel cells are also limited by capacity on line 10. Line 14 limits the credit to your tax after other credits and line 15 goes to Schedule 3, line 5a.
Section A: insulation, Energy Star exterior doors, windows and skylights in your existing main home. Section B: central air conditioners, gas, propane or oil water heaters and furnaces, electrical panel upgrades, home energy audits, and on line 29 heat pumps, heat pump water heaters and biomass stoves or boilers. For 2025 every door, window and Section B item needs the manufacturer's four-character Qualified Manufacturer Identification Number (QMID) on the form.
30% of cost, capped per year: $1,200 in total for Section A and most Section B items (within that, $250 per door and $500 for all doors, $600 for windows, $600 per appliance or panel upgrade, $150 for an audit) plus a separate $2,000 for heat pumps, heat pump water heaters and biomass systems, so the most Part II can give is $3,200.
Unused Part I credit carries forward: line 12 brings in the 2024 amount and line 16 carries the excess to 2026. Part II has no carryforward; whatever exceeds your tax that year is lost.
A homeowner with no dependents had a rooftop solar system ($18,000) and a 13.5 kWh battery ($9,000) installed on their main home in 2025, and in the same year added an Energy Star heat pump ($7,500), attic insulation ($2,400), two Energy Star windows ($1,800 together) and paid $400 for a certified home energy audit. Their income tax on Form 1040, line 18 is $9,000 and they claim no other credits. All installations were completed before December 31, 2025.
100 Sample St, Springfield, IL 62701 — $18,000
Includes installation labor and wiring. The 2025 form asks for the address of the home where the Part I property was installed.
Yes — $9,000
The battery must have a capacity of at least 3 kilowatt hours; a No answer means no battery credit at all.
$27,000 — $8,100 — $0 — $8,100
Line 6b is 30% of the combined Part I costs. Line 12 is $0 because there was no carryforward on the 2024 form, so line 13 is $8,100.
Yes, Yes, Yes, same address, No
Existing main home in the United States, original user, expected to last 5 years, and nothing related to new construction. A No on 17a, 17b or 17c ends Section A.
$2,400 — $720
30% of the material cost only; installation labor is excluded for insulation, doors and windows. No QMID line exists for insulation.
ABCD $1,000 and ABCE $800 (illustrative QMIDs) — line 20c $1,800 — line 20d $540
Each window needs the manufacturer's four-character Qualified Manufacturer Identification Number next to its cost. The windows cap is $600, so the $540 is allowed in full.
Yes — $400 — $120; line 27 $1,380; line 28 $1,200
The audit credit is capped at $150. Line 27 adds insulation, windows and audit ($720 + $540 + $120) and line 28 cuts the total to the $1,200 annual limit.
QMID and $7,500 on line 29a — line 29h $2,000
30% of $7,500 is $2,250, but heat pumps, heat pump water heaters and biomass systems share a separate $2,000 cap.
$3,200 — $9,000 — $3,200, entered on Schedule 3 (Form 1040), line 5b
Line 31 comes from the Part II credit-limit worksheet in the instructions ($9,000 tax minus the listed credits, none here). $3,200 is the most Part II can ever give in a year.
$5,800 — $5,800, entered on Schedule 3 (Form 1040), line 5a — $2,300 carried to 2026
The Part I worksheet subtracts the Part II credit from the $9,000 tax first, so only $5,800 of the $8,100 can be used this year. The unused $2,300 goes on line 16 and becomes line 12 of the 2026 form; Part II has no such carryforward.
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Official source: Form 5695 on IRS’s website
Edition checked: Form 5695 (2025) and Instructions for Form 5695 (2025), rev. Jan 22, 2026, with the IRS joint-occupancy correction of Jan 26, 2026. Verified against the official source on .
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