Rooftop solar panels are a great way to go green with your energy consumption and slash your bills at the same time. However, breaking even after a full-scale installation can take a few years.

The "Solar for All" program, designed to help low-income Americans install solar panels, would have delivered residential solar projects to more than 900,000 households nationwide. (Myung J. Chun / ...

Last year, Columbus, Ga., resident Christine DiFeliciantonio, 67, already began suspecting a new administration could end solar energy incentives. “It was cause for me to act more urgently,” she said.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday terminated a $7 billion grant program intended to help pay for residential solar projects for more than 900,000 lower-income U.S. households, in the ...