Electric cooperative
Solar with Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC)
Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) members pay 13.3¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 11 years.
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At a glance
Residential schedule effective November 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.
- Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
- Systems up to 1000 kW AC qualify for net metering; above that, capacity would run without export credit.
- Net-metered accounts pay $2.22 a month more in fixed charges, net-metered accounts move to a flat 8.73¢ per kWh schedule, there is a $35 interconnection fee.
A typical home: 1100 kWh a month, electric heat
Best-case figures with the range shown; Florida's tax exemptions included. Production reference: Naples. Your roof, usage and heating change every number, which is what the estimate is for.
Full schedule and net-metering rules
- Fixed charge
- $20 per month; minimum bill $20
- Energy
- 11.81¢ up to 500 kWh; 12.58¢ up to 1,000 kWh; 13.34¢ above that
- Net metering
- Net Metering Rider: kWh returned are deducted from kWh delivered each month; excess kWh 'carried forward as a kWh credit to the end of the calendar year and payable to the customer at the Cooperative's calculated avoided purchase power cost for the prior year' (paid in January; rate not published). NM members bill on a separate rate: customer charge $22.22 (3-ph $25.22), flat energy 8.21 cents/kWh (+PCA, 8.732 cents with the November 2026 PCA) instead of the 11.29-12.82 cent tiers. Tier1 (<=10 kW) fee $35; Tier2 up to $1,000; Tier3 $1,000.
- Notes
- PCA posted monthly on lcec.net (2026 range $0.00522-$0.03215; Nov-2026 $0.00522). Three-phase customer charge $23.00.
- Effective
- November 1, 2026; checked November 1, 2026
Questions members ask
- Does Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) 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 Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC)?
- Systems up to 1000 kW AC qualify for net metering. The interconnection fee is $35. Net-metered accounts pay $2.22 a month more in fixed charges.
- Does Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) have a demand charge?
- Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
- What would solar cost and save for a typical Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC) home?
- For a electrically heated home using about 1100 kWh a month, a net-zero system is about 8.3 kW, costs roughly $18,346 to $22,423 installed, saves $1,479 to $1,680 in the first year, and pays back in 9.9 to 13.2 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 Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC)'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 Naples and Florida installed-cost data. If you spot an error, email us and we will correct it.
Service area
Other Florida co-ops: Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (WREC), Clay Electric Cooperative, SECO Energy (Sumter Electric Cooperative), Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO), Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative (SVEC), Talquin Electric Cooperative. 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 November 1, 2026 · Checked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
- Net-metering / distributed-generation policyChecked November 1, 2026 · Read from the primary source
- 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
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.