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Solar with West Florida Electric Cooperative
West Florida Electric Cooperative members pay 11.6¢ per kWh and no demand charge; a typical home's solar pays back in about 23 years.
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At a glance
Residential schedule effective May 1, 2022; 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 5.20¢ per kWh, well below retail, and credits offset energy charges only with any balance deleted each December.
- West Florida Electric Cooperative 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 $135 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: Marianna. Your roof, usage and heating change every number, which is what the estimate is for.
Full schedule and net-metering rules
- Fixed charge
- $35 per month; minimum bill $35
- Energy
- 11.64¢ all kWh
- Net metering
- Member-Owned Generation (<=25 kW): billed on RS; exports credited at $0.052/kWh (tariff RS-NM 'Rate as of August 1, 2021', based on average avoided cost; still 5.2 cents on 2025 handout). MOG agreement: credits carry forward within the 12-month period and any outstanding credit is paid at period end; tariff says unused credit reverts on exit. Solar members 'are charged $4.94 per kW of their overall system capacity' (PowerSouth fixed-cost pass-through, read as per kW per month like EREC's).
- Notes
- Excludes the Power Cost Adjustment, which WFEC does not post. WFEC's 2025 solar handout rounds the buy rate to 12 cents (<=1,000 kWh) and 13 cents above, suggesting PCA is embedded there. Three-phase $55.
- Effective
- May 1, 2022; checked November 1, 2026
Questions members ask
- Does West Florida Electric Cooperative pay for excess solar power?
- Power you use on site saves the full retail rate; power you export is credited at about 5.20¢ 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 West Florida Electric Cooperative?
- Systems up to 25 kW AC qualify for net metering. The interconnection fee is $135.
- Does West Florida Electric Cooperative have a demand charge?
- West Florida Electric Cooperative has no residential demand charge, so every kWh solar offsets saves the full energy rate.
- What would solar cost and save for a typical West Florida Electric Cooperative 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 $668 to $764 in the first year, and pays back in 20.4 to 26.6 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 West Florida Electric Cooperative'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 Marianna and Florida installed-cost data. If you spot an error, email us and we will correct it.
Service area
Solar by city in West Florida Electric Cooperative's area: · also part of the Marianna area. All Florida cities.
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.
- Residential rate schedule: fixed charge, energy rateEffective May 1, 2022 · 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.