Utilities · Florida

FPL in 2026: one tariff, nine line items, real net metering

SLWritten by the Solar Learning Lab research desk·Updated August 17, 2026·8 min read

Florida Power & Light is the rare big utility where the solar rules are still simple. Exports net against consumption at full retail value, the tariff is identical across the service territory, and the paperwork runs through one PSC rule. The complexity hides somewhere else: the bill itself. An FPL residential bill stacks nine separate charges on top of each other, and if you do not know which ones solar offsets, you will overestimate your savings.

How FPL credits your exports

FPL runs classic net metering. Excess generation flows to the grid and gets deducted from your monthly bill or credited toward a future bill within the same calendar year. The governing regulation is Florida PSC Rule 25-6.065, which FPL hosts in full. There is no separate, lower export price the way California's investor owned utilities or APS in Arizona now do it. A kilowatt-hour you send out is worth the same as one you avoid buying.

Two fine-print items people miss. First, credits reconcile within the calendar year, so a system oversized for winter exports does not bank value indefinitely. Second, the $30 minimum base bill still applies, so zero-consumption months do not mean zero-dollar months. Neither breaks the math; both belong in it.

Sources: FPL net metering; Rule 25-6.065 text; Cornell LII mirror.

What this means for a solar roof

Full retail crediting plus high household consumption is a friendly combination. Florida homes averaged 1,104 kWh a month in 2024, nearly double a California household, so there is a lot of bill to offset before exports even enter the picture. The soft spot is the rate itself: Florida power is cheaper than the national average, so each offset kilowatt-hour saves less than it would in New York or California. Payback here is a volume game.

If you are shopping in Miami specifically, the city waives its building permit fees for solar and processes applications within three business days, which takes real friction out of the process. Our Miami page walks through permits, installer ratings and a cost table by system size, and the Florida page covers the statewide picture including the sales and property tax exemptions.

What we could not verify

We publish what we can source and flag what we cannot. As of August 17, 2026: whether FPL's proposed January 2027 rates are approved (the only document we found labels them proposed), the effective date of the current version of Rule 25-6.065 as applied to new 2026 interconnections, and any FPL cash rebate for residential rooftop solar (we believe none exists, but absence of evidence is not proof). If you hold a document that settles any of these, our editorial policy explains how corrections work.