How OUC (Orlando Utilities Commission) handles home solar
OUC credits home solar under its own program, TruNet Solar, not the state net metering rule for FPL, Duke Energy Florida and Tampa Electric. Your credit for power sent to the grid depends on when OUC got your complete interconnection application: by June 30, 2025, the full retail rate until mid-2045; from July 1, 2025, a lower fuel-based rate once a grace period ends October 31, 2026. OUC's solar billing changes on November 1, 2026; confirm details with OUC.
General information, not legal or financial advice.
Why OUC sets its own rules
The net metering rule of the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), Rule 25-6.065, applies to investor-owned utilities. OUC is a municipal utility, and Florida law has each one set its own interconnection and net metering program (s. 366.91(6), Florida Statutes).
How the bill works now, and from November 1, 2026
TruNet Solar is Second Revised Sheet No. 3.500 of OUC's tariff, effective July 1, 2025. Until OUC's billing system changes over, each month is netted: you pay for the kWh you took from the grid minus what you sent back. If you sent more, OUC's rooftop solar page says the dollar value goes into a "solar bank".
OUC's last annual true-up, in December 2025, turned any balance into an account credit, payable by refund check on request. A final true-up comes before the change.
From November 1, 2026, OUC says, the solar bank is retired: the tariff then bills all energy OUC delivers at your normal rate and credits all energy you export at your credit rate. OUC says credits apply in the same billing period and leftovers carry forward, with no further true-ups. It does not say whether leftover credit can be paid out; ask OUC.
Your credit rate depends on your dates
- Complete application by June 30, 2025: the full retail rate until June 30, 2045, then OUC's levelized fuel charge.
- Complete application July 1, 2025 or later: the full retail rate during a grace period that OUC's page says ends October 31, 2026; then the community solar energy rate until June 30, 2030; then the levelized fuel charge.
In the tariff, the full retail rate is the non-fuel base charge plus fuel charge, without the extra non-fuel charge homes pay above 1,000 kWh (Sheet No. 3.500). The community solar energy rate is OUC's standard levelized fuel rate plus 0.7 cents per kWh (Third Revised Sheet No. 5.925, effective October 1, 2024).
Moving into a home with solar? OUC ties the credit rate to the date a new or transferred account starts, so one started on or after July 1, 2025 gets the newer customers' rates. Adding panels keeps full retail rate status; the tariff wants a new application at least 30 days before a size change (Sheet No. 6.502). St. Cloud's TruNet terms match (Sheet No. 5.50).
Fees and charges for solar customers
- Application fee, by AC rating: 10 kW or less (Tier 1), none; over 10 to 100 kW (Tier 2), $340; over 100 kW to 2 MW (Tier 3), $1,300 (OUC tariff, Third Revised Sheet No. 6.501, effective January 1, 2025). For inverter systems, AC rating is the DC nameplate rating times 0.85.
- Size: a system should offset no more than the home's yearly use (Sheet No. 6.501). Above 90% of your service rating, upgrades are at your cost (OUC tariff, Sheet No. 6.502).
- Insurance: recommended for Tier 1; at least $1 million liability for Tier 2 and $2 million for Tier 3 (OUC tariff, Sheet No. 6.503).
- Disconnect switch: required above Tier 1. Without one, OUC isolates a system, when needed, by pulling the meter, cutting your service (Sheet No. 6.503).
- Every month: no separate solar charge, and OUC installs two-way metering at no additional cost (Sheet No. 3.500). The residential customer charge, $18.50 a month ($19.24 in St. Cloud), is also the minimum bill (OUC tariff, Sheets No. 5.100 and 7.100, effective October 1, 2024) until DemandLevel starts; see below.
How to connect to OUC
From OUC's rooftop solar page:
- Before installing, your contractor sends OUC the address and system size so OUC can check for a transformer upgrade.
- The contractor pulls permits and installs to OUC's interconnection requirements.
- After the final permit inspection, the contractor applies through OUC's online portal with the passed inspection, a signed itemized proof of purchase and a one-line diagram; Tiers 2 and 3 add proof of insurance and payment.
- If OUC approves, it reconfigures or, rarely, replaces your meter; the system may not run on the grid before then (Sheet No. 6.502).
DemandLevel: where it stands on October 23, 2026
OUC's board approved DemandLevel in December 2024. OUC explains that it reduces the per-kWh charge and adds a monthly charge in three tiers set by your highest 15-minute demand. It says that for most customers the change begins with the November 2026 bill, based on peak demand in October.
OUC filed the tariff sheets with the PSC on July 8, 2026, for a November 1, 2026 start (PSC document 04010-2026). As filed, the minimum bill becomes the customer charge plus the DemandLevel charge.
On October 23, 2026, OUC's rates page lists DemandLevel charges for homes of $5, $10 or $15 a month by tier ($5.20, $10.40 or $15.60 in St. Cloud). The TruNet sheet ties your charges and the full retail credit rate to your normal rate schedule, which DemandLevel changes; OUC's pages do not say how it will apply to solar homes.
Rules and rates change; confirm yours with OUC at (407) 423-9018.
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