Electric cooperative
Solar with Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO)
Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO) members pay 12.1¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 18 years.
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At a glance
Residential schedule effective April 1, 2021; 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 5.68¢ per kWh, well below retail, and credits offset energy charges only.
- Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO) 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 $5 a month more in fixed charges, net-metered accounts move to a flat 11.2¢ per kWh schedule.
A typical home: 1100 kWh a month, electric heat
Best-case figures with the range shown; Florida's tax exemptions included. Production reference: Sarasota. Your roof, usage and heating change every number, which is what the estimate is for.
Full schedule and net-metering rules
- Fixed charge
- $28 per month; minimum bill $28
- Energy
- 11.10¢ up to 1,000 kWh; 12.10¢ above that
- Net metering
- Rate RS-DGE (eff. 4/1/2022): Facilities Use Charge $33.00/mo (vs $28 on RS), Delivered Energy $0.11240/kWh all kWh, Received Energy purchased monthly at $0.05685/kWh, both +/- Cost of Power Adjustment; plus a 'Fixed Charge Rate per agreement' on interconnection facilities. Instantaneous netting; no kWh banking. Legacy kWh-netting Rate NM closed 11/1/2016.
- Notes
- Energy rates exclude the Cost of Power Adjustment (Sheet 15.00; base $0.09/kWh); current factor not published. Solar members are moved to Rate RS-DGE (below), not RS.
- Effective
- April 1, 2021; checked November 1, 2026
Questions members ask
- Does Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO) pay for excess solar power?
- Power you use on site saves the full retail rate; power you export is credited at about 5.68¢ per kWh, well below retail, and credits offset energy charges only.
- How big a solar system can I net-meter with Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO)?
- Systems up to 1000 kW AC qualify for net metering. Net-metered accounts pay $5 a month more in fixed charges.
- Does Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO) have a demand charge?
- Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO) has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
- What would solar cost and save for a typical Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO) 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 $878 to $997 in the first year, and pays back in 15.6 to 20.5 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 Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO)'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 Sarasota and Florida installed-cost data. If you spot an error, email us and we will correct it.
Service area
Solar by city in Peace River Electric Cooperative (PRECO)'s area: · also part of the Bradenton area. All Florida cities.
Other Florida co-ops: Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (WREC), Clay Electric Cooperative, SECO Energy (Sumter Electric Cooperative), Lee County Electric Cooperative (LCEC), 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 April 1, 2021 · 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.