Florida Solar Estimate

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Solar with Florida Public Utilities (FPUC)

Florida Public Utilities (FPUC) members pay 16.7¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 10 years.

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At a glance

Energy rate
16.7¢/kWh
tiered by monthly use
Fixed charge
$24/mo
$24 minimum bill
Demand charge
None
every offset kWh saves the full rate
Net-metering limit
2000 kW AC
bank resets in December

Residential schedule effective March 20, 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 paid out at about 3.00¢ per kWh.
  • Florida Public Utilities (FPUC) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
  • Systems up to 2000 kW AC qualify for net metering; 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$2,172
at least $1,913
Payback
as low as8.3 yrs
8.3–11.1 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
$24 per month; minimum bill $24
Energy
13.66¢ up to 1,000 kWh; 16.74¢ above that
Net metering
Tariff Section 8: excess kWh 'credited to the Customer's energy consumption for the next' month, accumulates up to 12 months; 'At the end of each calendar year, the Company shall pay the Customer for any unused energy credits at an average annual rate based on the Company's COG-1, as-available energy tariff' (3c estimate). Tier 1 <=10 kW, Tier 2 <=100 kW, Tier 3 <=2 MW standard agreements.
Notes
Purchased-power, conservation and SPP factors reset each January (2027 factors pending PSC). Base rates from the 2025 rate case (Docket 20240099-EI).
Effective
March 20, 2026; checked November 1, 2026

Questions members ask

Does Florida Public Utilities (FPUC) 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 paid out at about 3.00¢ per kWh.
How big a solar system can I net-meter with Florida Public Utilities (FPUC)?
Systems up to 2000 kW AC qualify for net metering.
Does Florida Public Utilities (FPUC) have a demand charge?
Florida Public Utilities (FPUC) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
What would solar cost and save for a typical Florida Public Utilities (FPUC) 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 $1,913 to $2,172 in the first year, and pays back in 8.3 to 11.1 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 Florida Public Utilities (FPUC)'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.

Service area

Tampa Electric (TECO)Florida Power & LightDuke Energy FloridaKissimmee Utility Authority (KUA)Lake Worth Beach Electric UtilityLakeland ElectricLee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC)City Of LeesburgBaldwin County El Member CorpCity Of Moore HavenCity Of BartowCity Of Mount DoraNew Smyrna Beach Utilities CommissionCity Of NewberryOcala Electric UtilityPeace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO)Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC)City Of QuincyReedy Creek Improvement DistSouthern Pine Electric CooperativeCity Of StarkeSECO Energy (Sumter Electric Cooperative)Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative (SVEC)City of Tallahassee UtilitiesTalquin Electric CooperativeThree Notch Electric Member CorpCity Of BlountstownTri-County Electric Cooperative (Madison)Alabama PowerCity Of AlachuaCity Of WauchulaWest Florida Electric CooperativeCity Of WillistonWiregrass Electric CooperativeWithlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (WREC)City Of BushnellOkefenoke REMCCentral Florida Electric Cooperative (CFEC)City Of ChattahoocheeChoctawhatchee Electric Cooperative (CHELCO)Clay Electric CooperativeCity Of ClewistonColquitt Electric Membership CorpCovington Electric CooperativeCity of Winter Park Electric UtilityEscambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC)Florida Keys Electric Cooperative (FKEC)City Of Fort MeadeFort Pierce Utilities AuthorityGainesville Regional Utilities (GRU)Georgia PowerGlades Electric CooperativeGrady Electric Membership CorpCity Of Green Cove SpringsGulf Coast Electric CooperativeHavana Power & Light CompanyCity Of HomesteadBeaches Energy Services (Jacksonville Beach)JEA (Jacksonville)Florida Public Utilities (FPUC)
Florida Public Utilities (FPUC)'s service territory (highlighted). Hover a region to see its utility.

Solar by city in Florida Public Utilities (FPUC)'s area: · also part of the Marianna area. All Florida cities.

Other Florida utilities: Florida Power & Light, FPL Northwest Florida (former Gulf Power), Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Electric (TECO). 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
    FPU Electric Tariff Sheet 7.001 RS (eff. March 20 2026): Customer Facilities Charge $24.40; base energy 2.867c (<=1000)/4.695c (>1000). Sheets 7.021 & 7.022 (both divisions, Jan 1-Dec 31 2026): purchased power 8.820c/10.070c, ECCR 0.321c; SPP factor 1.656c => 13.664c/16.742c. PSC Oct 1 2026 sheet: $165.17 incl. GRT.
    Effective March 20, 2026 · Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
  2. Net-metering / distributed-generation policy
    Tariff Section 8: excess kWh 'credited to the Customer's energy consumption for the next' month, accumulates up to 12 months; 'At the end of each calendar year, the Company shall pay the Customer for any unused energy credits at an average annual rate based on the Company's COG-1, as-available energy tariff' (3c estimate). Tier 1 <=10 kW, Tier 2 <=100 kW, Tier 3 <=2 MW standard agreements.
    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.

Your address, your numbers

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