Solar Panels in Fort Myers, FL: 2026 Cost, Florida Power & Light Net Metering & Savings

Fort Myers and the bill

Fort Myers and most of Lee County are on Florida Power & Light. Cape Coral is a separate city with its own permit office and the same utility for most addresses. Do not mix the two permit processes. Fort Myers learned in recent hurricanes that roofs are the main event. Solar belongs in that sentence, not above it. A code-compliant array on a new roof is a reasonable project. An array on a tired roof is a future tear-off. Snowbird occupancy also changes the math: if the house is empty in summer, the solar still produces while nobody is home to use it, and the export credit becomes most of the value. That is a tariff question, and it is sharper here than in a year-round Orlando house. The 2025 EIA residential average for Florida was 15.21 cents per kWh. That statewide figure is what our calculator uses. It is not the Florida Power & Light tariff. A rounded solar resource for this metro is about 5.2 peak sun hours a day.

Export credits and any SREC or REC

Florida Power & Light serves Fort Myers, and Florida does not have one export credit for the state. Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Electric, and municipal utilities such as OUC, JEA, Lakeland Electric, and the City of Tallahassee each publish their own rider. A neighboring city can be a different company. There is no Florida SREC price to put next to the bill. The proposal has to name the rider. Wind design follows the Florida Building Code and is stricter on exposed coasts than inland. An array is not a storm shelter and it is not an insurance promise.

Roofs, climate, permits, and HOAs

Single-story block homes with hip roofs are common. Hip roofs have less usable south plane than gable roofs of the same size. Many communities are deed-restricted. The restriction may not be allowed to ban solar outright, and it can still specify placement. Read it before you pay for design. A Fort Myers permit comes from the local building department, not from Florida Power & Light. An HOA can add its own review. This page does not quote a FL permit fee or an approval, because both depend on the address.

Estimated cost range

Estimated cost range for Fort Myers, labeled as an estimate and not a local quote: Berkeley Lab's August 2026 update put 2025 host-owned residential systems at about $3.60 per watt before incentives, about $3.00 per watt in the cash subset, and about $4.50 per watt in the loan subset. The median size in that set was 7.7 kW. Fort Myers is about 5.2 peak sun hours a day, against about 5.2 statewide. The federal residential credit under 26 U.S.C. § 25D ended for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025. The IRS treats that expenditure as made when the original installation is completed.

• Cash

  $3.00/W

  $23,100

  Subset classified as cash

• Middle published case

  $3.60/W

  $27,720

  All host-owned systems

• Loan

  $4.50/W

  $34,650

  Financed subset, before interest

Before incentives. A loan price here excludes interest. The federal residential credit under section 25D ended for systems placed in service after December 31, 2025. Berkeley Lab, U.S. Distributed Solar and Storage, August 2026 data update.