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Solar with Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach)

Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach) members pay 13.0¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 12 years.

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At a glance

Energy rate
13.0¢/kWh
flat rate
Fixed charge
$5/mo
billed every month, solar or not
Demand charge
None
every offset kWh saves the full rate
Net-metering limit
No stated cap
credits reset monthly

Residential schedule effective November 1, 2026; checked November 1, 2026. Sources.

What this means for solar

  • Excess power is credited at the full retail rate within the month, but credits zero out on the first of every month, so summer surplus is lost rather than banked for winter.
  • Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
  • The policy states no size cap; above that, capacity would run without export credit.

A typical home: 1100 kWh a month, electric heat

Net-zero system
9 kW
1474 kWh per kW per year
Installed cost
as low as$19,440
up to $23,760
First-year savings
up to$1,660
at least $1,462
Payback
as low as10.5 yrs
10.5–14.1 yrs at 2.7%/yr

Best-case figures with the range shown; Florida's tax exemptions included. Production reference: Jacksonville. Your roof, usage and heating change every number, which is what the estimate is for.

Full schedule and net-metering rules
Fixed charge
$5 per month
Energy
13.02¢ all kWh
Net metering
Rates page, photovoltaic customers: 'credits may apply on kilowatt hours sold to Beaches Energy Services' = residential usage credit ($0.09124) + power cost credit ($0.03892 Nov) per exported kWh, i.e., exports valued at the full retail energy-plus-PCA rate each month (base charge not offset). Carry-forward of any net dollar credit and size tiers not stated.
Notes
PCA (bulk power cost adjustment) changes monthly; December 2026 all-in is $0.13211/kWh.
Effective
November 1, 2026; checked November 1, 2026

Questions members ask

Does Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach) pay for excess solar power?
Excess power is credited at the full retail rate within the month, but credits zero out on the first of every month, so summer surplus is lost rather than banked for winter.
How big a solar system can I net-meter with Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach)?
The policy states no size cap.
Does Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach) have a demand charge?
Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
What would solar cost and save for a typical Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach) home?
For a electrically heated home using about 1100 kWh a month, a net-zero system is about 9 kW, costs roughly $19,440 to $23,760 installed, saves $1,462 to $1,660 in the first year, and pays back in 10.5 to 14.1 years at 2.7% a year rate growth. Your address gives a real figure in about a minute.
What federal incentives apply in 2026?
Florida exempts solar equipment from sales tax and keeps the value it adds off your property-tax bill, and both are already in these figures. Business-owned systems, including rental property, qualify for the 30% federal investment credit (Section 48E) and bonus depreciation when placed in service by the end of 2027; tax-exempt owners receive the 30% as cash. Not tax advice.
Where do these numbers come from?
The rate figures are read from Beaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach)'s own published schedule and net-metering policy (linked under Sources), last checked November 1, 2026. The worked example runs the same engine as the estimator, using a production reference for Jacksonville and Florida installed-cost data. If you spot an error, email us and we will correct it.

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Sources

Every figure on this page comes from the documents below. We print the schedule’s effective date and the date we last read it; when a utility publishes nothing, we say so instead of guessing quietly.

  1. Residential rate schedule: fixed charge, energy rate
    Beaches Energy Residential Rates page (November / December 1 columns): base charge $4.50/month; usage $0.09124/kWh; Power Cost Adjustment $0.03892 (Nov) => $0.13016; Dec 1 PCA $0.04087 => $0.13211. Sept/Oct 2026 Tidings insert: $4.50 + $91.24 + $38.92 = $134.66 per 1,000 kWh.
    Effective November 1, 2026 · Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
  2. Net-metering / distributed-generation policy
    Rates page, photovoltaic customers: 'credits may apply on kilowatt hours sold to Beaches Energy Services' = residential usage credit ($0.09124) + power cost credit ($0.03892 Nov) per exported kWh, i.e., exports valued at the full retail energy-plus-PCA rate each month (base charge not offset). Carry-forward of any net dollar credit and size tiers not stated.
    Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
  3. Service territory on the map
    HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (U.S. DHS / Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Florida subset, 2020 vintage; boundaries are coarse at town edges
    Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
  4. Worked example: production, installed cost, savings and payback
    Florida Solar Estimate engine: PVGIS-ERA5-based production reference for Jacksonville (1474 kWh per kW per year after shading and soiling and orientation), installed-cost ladder (Florida cash-price range, Oct 2026), 2.7%/yr rate escalation and 0.5%/yr panel degradation
    Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source

Spot an error or a rate change? Email mtsolarestimate@gmail.com. How the estimate itself is built: methodology.

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