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Solar with Fort Pierce Utilities Authority

Fort Pierce Utilities Authority members pay 13.2¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 19 years.

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At a glance

Energy rate
13.2¢/kWh
tiered by monthly use
Fixed charge
$7/mo
$7 minimum bill
Demand charge
None
every offset kWh saves the full rate
Net-metering limit
2000 kW AC
exports paid at wholesale

Residential schedule effective March 1, 2026; 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 4.00¢ per kWh, well below retail, and credits offset energy charges only with any balance deleted each December.
  • Fort Pierce Utilities Authority 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
8.9 kW
1483 kWh per kW per year
Installed cost
as low as$19,288
up to $23,574
First-year savings
up to$1,001
at least $877
Payback
as low as16.3 yrs
16.3–21.4 yrs at 2.7%/yr

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

Full schedule and net-metering rules
Fixed charge
$7 per month; minimum bill $7
Energy
11.91¢ up to 750 kWh; 13.20¢ above that
Net metering
fpua.com/net-metering: consumption billed at the standard kWh rate; exports credited at the 'ARP Renewable Generation Credit' (FMPA rate 'updated quarterly'; value not published, 4c is an estimate); net credit remaining after a rolling 12-month period with no billed consumption is 'reimbursed with a payment from FPUA'. Tier 2-3 insurance >= $100,000 naming FPUA.
Notes
Rates indexed annually (March 1). PCA varies with purchased-power cost.
Effective
March 1, 2026; checked November 1, 2026

Questions members ask

Does Fort Pierce Utilities Authority pay for excess solar power?
Power you use on site saves the full retail rate; power you export is credited at about 4.00¢ per kWh, well below retail, and credits offset energy charges only with any balance deleted each December.
How big a solar system can I net-meter with Fort Pierce Utilities Authority?
Systems up to 2000 kW AC qualify for net metering.
Does Fort Pierce Utilities Authority have a demand charge?
Fort Pierce Utilities Authority has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
What would solar cost and save for a typical Fort Pierce Utilities Authority home?
For a electrically heated home using about 1100 kWh a month, a net-zero system is about 8.9 kW, costs roughly $19,288 to $23,574 installed, saves $877 to $1,001 in the first year, and pays back in 16.3 to 21.4 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 Fort Pierce Utilities Authority'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 Port St. Lucie and Florida installed-cost data. If you spot an error, email us and we will correct it.

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Fort Pierce Utilities Authority's service territory (highlighted). Hover a region to see its utility.

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.

  1. Residential rate schedule: fixed charge, energy rate
    FPUA Residential Electric Rates eff. 03/01/2026 (Resolution UA 2026-02): customer charge $7.45; energy $0.11512 (0-750 kWh) / $0.12804 (751+ kWh); Power Cost Adjustment $0.00400/kWh => $0.11912/$0.13204.
    Effective March 1, 2026 · Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
  2. Net-metering / distributed-generation policy
    fpua.com/net-metering: consumption billed at the standard kWh rate; exports credited at the 'ARP Renewable Generation Credit' (FMPA rate 'updated quarterly'; value not published, 4c is an estimate); net credit remaining after a rolling 12-month period with no billed consumption is 'reimbursed with a payment from FPUA'. Tier 2-3 insurance >= $100,000 naming FPUA.
    Checked November 1, 2026 · Not verified: placeholder figures
  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 Port St. Lucie (1483 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
  • Fort Pierce Utilities Authority'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.