Solar Panels in Orlando, FL: 2026 Cost, OUC Net Metering & Savings

Orlando and the bill

Orlando Utilities Commission is the municipal utility for a large part of the city. Many Orange County addresses outside that territory are Duke Energy Florida. A Winter Park or Kissimmee bill can be a third company. Do not send an OUC proposal to a Duke address. Orlando is inland. Hurricane wind still matters, and the design wind speed is generally less severe than on the open Gulf, but it is not zero. Daily thunderstorms in summer cut production the same way they do on the coast. The useful local fact is the utility boundary. OUC sets its own solar tariffs. Duke sets others. The EIA state average used on this site is neither of those documents. 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 OUC tariff. A rounded solar resource for this metro is about 5.1 peak sun hours a day.

Export credits and any SREC or REC

OUC serves Orlando, 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

Subdivision roofs from the last thirty years dominate large parts of the metro. Many are asphalt shingle with a simple hip shape, which is a straightforward array if the roof is young. Older oaks in College Park and similar neighborhoods create shade that a new subdivision does not have. Tourist-corridor low-rise roofs are a different building type and often a commercial account. A Orlando permit comes from the local building department, not from OUC. 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. Confirm OUC versus Duke before you compare prices per watt. A municipal interconnection is not an investor-owned interconnection. Ask whether the proposal assumes you can transfer credits across a year or only inside a billing cycle.

Estimated cost range

Estimated cost range for Orlando, 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. Orlando is about 5.1 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.