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Solar with City of Winter Park Electric Utility
City of Winter Park Electric Utility members pay 12.3¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 13 years.
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At a glance
Residential schedule effective September 1, 2026; checked November 1, 2026. Sources.
What this means for solar
- Excess power is banked as kWh at the full retail rate and drawn down in later months. The bank resets in December, and anything left is forfeited to the utility.
- City of Winter Park Electric Utility has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
- Systems up to 100 kW AC qualify for net metering; above that, capacity would run without export credit.
A typical home: 1100 kWh a month, electric heat
Best-case figures with the range shown; Florida's tax exemptions included. Production reference: Orlando. Your roof, usage and heating change every number, which is what the estimate is for.
Full schedule and net-metering rules
- Fixed charge
- $17 per month
- Energy
- 8.96¢ up to 1,000 kWh; 12.34¢ above that
- Net metering
- Credit basis NOT confirmed: the Tier 1 agreement says excess kWh value 'shall be reflected on Customer's bill in accordance with the City's applicable net metering tariff' (sheet not located); the Going Solar page says customers are 'reimbursed for the excess electricity ... measured in kWh'; customer charge always payable; Tier I <=10 kW AC, Tier II <=100 kW; Tier II $1M insurance; permit fees Tier I $50 / Tier II $150. Modeled as monthly kWh netting with no annual payout.
- Notes
- Fuel factor reviewed at least quarterly; March 2026 FCRF was 3.958c/4.958c. Sept 2026 budget raised base rates about 7.7%.
- Effective
- September 1, 2026; checked November 1, 2026
Questions members ask
- Does City of Winter Park Electric Utility pay for excess solar power?
- Excess power is banked as kWh at the full retail rate and drawn down in later months. The bank resets in December, and anything left is forfeited to the utility.
- How big a solar system can I net-meter with City of Winter Park Electric Utility?
- Systems up to 100 kW AC qualify for net metering.
- Does City of Winter Park Electric Utility have a demand charge?
- City of Winter Park Electric Utility has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
- What would solar cost and save for a typical City of Winter Park Electric Utility home?
- For a electrically heated home using about 1100 kWh a month, a net-zero system is about 9.2 kW, costs roughly $19,756 to $24,146 installed, saves $1,361 to $1,548 in the first year, and pays back in 11.4 to 15.2 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 City of Winter Park Electric Utility'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 Orlando and Florida installed-cost data. If you spot an error, email us and we will correct it.
Service area
Other Florida utilities: JEA (Jacksonville), Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC), Lakeland Electric, Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU), City of Tallahassee Utilities, Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA). All 34 utilities.
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.
- Residential rate schedule: fixed charge, energy rateEffective September 1, 2026 · Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
- Net-metering / distributed-generation policyChecked November 1, 2026 · Not verified: placeholder figures
- Service territory on the mapChecked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
- Worked example: production, installed cost, savings and paybackChecked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
- City of Winter Park Electric Utility's net-metering terms are not published; the common Florida co-op pattern is assumed until confirmed.
Spot an error or a rate change? Email mtsolarestimate@gmail.com. How the estimate itself is built: methodology.
Your address, your numbers
Roof, usage and heating change everything above. The estimate takes about a minute and asks for no contact details.