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Get with a local solar company and have them look at your plans. You may be building a home that cannot work with solar due to your roof pitch, orientation or shade. Let them give you a site assessment and run the financials based on your available incentives. You can look them up here: http://dsireusa.org/
Your federal tax credit is 30% through 2016. For your state tax credit see http://dsireusa.org/
In Louisiana you can get 30% plus 50% on a system that costs $25,000, so you would get $20,000 here!