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Solar with Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC)

Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC) members pay 10.6¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 28 years.

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At a glance

Energy rate
10.6¢/kWh
flat rate
Fixed charge
$45/mo
$45 minimum bill
Demand charge
None
every offset kWh saves the full rate
Net-metering limit
25 kW AC
exports paid at wholesale

Residential schedule effective October 1, 2024; checked November 1, 2026. Sources.

What this means for solar

  • Power you use on site saves the full retail rate; power you export is credited at about 3.57¢ per kWh, well below retail, and credits offset energy charges only.
  • Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
  • Systems up to 25 kW AC qualify for net metering; above that, capacity would run without export credit.
  • There is a $50 interconnection fee.

A typical home: 1100 kWh a month, electric heat

Net-zero system
8.7 kW
1523 kWh per kW per year
Installed cost
as low as$18,980
up to $23,198
First-year savings
up to$575
at least $506
Payback
as low as25.1 yrs
25.1–32.1 yrs at 2.7%/yr

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

Full schedule and net-metering rules
Fixed charge
$45 per month; minimum bill $45
Energy
10.60¢ all kWh
Net metering
NMTR rider: exports credited monthly at EREC's avoided cost ('2026 Solar Payback Rate $0.03566 per kWh (varies annually)'); if credit exceeds charges the bill is zero and the difference carries to later cycles; unused credit reverts on exit. '2026 PowerSouth Solar Fixed Cost Recovery Charge' $4.86 per AC kW of facility output (per kW per month, varies annually). $50 application fee; $100,000 liability insurance.
Notes
erec.com publishes no rate schedule. Excludes the Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (monthly, vs base in cost-of-service study; value not published).
Effective
October 1, 2024; checked November 1, 2026

Questions members ask

Does Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC) pay for excess solar power?
Power you use on site saves the full retail rate; power you export is credited at about 3.57¢ per kWh, well below retail, and credits offset energy charges only.
How big a solar system can I net-meter with Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC)?
Systems up to 25 kW AC qualify for net metering. The interconnection fee is $50.
Does Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC) have a demand charge?
Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
What would solar cost and save for a typical Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC) home?
For a electrically heated home using about 1100 kWh a month, a net-zero system is about 8.7 kW, costs roughly $18,980 to $23,198 installed, saves $506 to $575 in the first year, and pays back in 25.1 to 32.1 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 Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC)'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 Pensacola and Florida installed-cost data. If you spot an error, email us and we will correct it.

Service area

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Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC)'s service territory (highlighted). Hover a region to see its utility.

Other Florida co-ops: Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (WREC), Clay Electric Cooperative, SECO Energy (Sumter Electric Cooperative), Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO), Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC), Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative (SVEC). 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.

  1. Residential rate schedule: fixed charge, energy rate
    EREC tariff Sheet RS (eff. 10/1/2024) as filed by EREC with FPSC (Doc. 09547-2024): Customer Facilities Charge $45.00/month, Energy 10.60 cents/kWh; base energy only
    Effective October 1, 2024 · Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
  2. Net-metering / distributed-generation policy
    NMTR rider: exports credited monthly at EREC's avoided cost ('2026 Solar Payback Rate $0.03566 per kWh (varies annually)'); if credit exceeds charges the bill is zero and the difference carries to later cycles; unused credit reverts on exit. '2026 PowerSouth Solar Fixed Cost Recovery Charge' $4.86 per AC kW of facility output (per kW per month, varies annually). $50 application fee; $100,000 liability insurance.
    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 Pensacola (1523 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.

Your address, your numbers

Roof, usage and heating change everything above. The estimate takes about a minute and asks for no contact details.