The best solar panels for Florida

• Heat rating. Panels are rated at a cell temperature of 25°C, and on a Florida roof they run much hotter. The temperature coefficient tells you how much output drops for each degree above that. At 20°C above the rating, a panel at -0.24% per °C loses about 4.8%, and one at -0.30% loses about 6%.
• Warranty. Look at the product warranty (defects), the power warranty (how much output is guaranteed at year 25) and whether labor for a replacement is covered.
• The company. A 25- or 40-year warranty is only worth something if the manufacturer is still in business, so company stability matters as much as the specs.

Efficiency matters mainly when roof space is tight. Most premium panels today are between about 21% and 24% efficient.

"See datasheet" means we couldn't confirm the figure from the manufacturer's own document. Ask your installer for the exact model's datasheet and warranty.

Tesla no longer sells its Solar Roof; if you have one or were considering it, see Tesla Solar Roof in Florida.

• Maxeon (the maker of SunPower panels). U.S. Customs has blocked Maxeon's Mexico-made panels under the forced-labor law since July 2024, and in April 2026 Maxeon applied for court-supervised restructuring in Singapore. Its 40-year warranty depends on the company surviving. SunPower, the installer, went bankrupt in 2024, and the SunPower name now belongs to a different company.
• Panasonic left the solar and storage business in April 2025 and ended its EverVolt panels. It says it will honor existing warranties.
• Silfab's South Carolina plant faced a state stop order in March 2026 and lost a court ruling in July 2026 over whether panel manufacturing is allowed there.
• Qcells furloughed about 1,000 Georgia workers in November 2025 over customs delays on imported cells, but began making its own cells in Cartersville, Georgia in June 2026.

If you already own one of these brands, keep your warranty paperwork and installer records together. See how to choose a solar company in Florida.

Yes. Qcells assembles panels in Dalton and Cartersville, Georgia, and in June 2026 started making solar cells in Cartersville too. Silfab builds panels in Washington and South Carolina, Canadian Solar assembles modules in Mesquite, Texas, and Tesla's new TSP panels, launched in January 2026, are assembled in Buffalo, New York.

"Made in the USA" usually means assembled here: many U.S.-assembled panels still use imported cells. Since homeowners lost the federal tax credit after 2025, there's no domestic-content bonus for a home you own, so choose on quality and warranty.

Under s. 377.705 of the Florida Statutes, solar equipment sold in Florida has to meet standards set by the Florida Solar Energy Center, which keeps a list of registered panels. Miami-Dade County's checklist requires panels to be FSEC-registered and installed with the same anchors and fasteners they were tested with.

Hurricane performance depends mostly on how the panels are attached: the racking, the roof attachments and the engineering for your home's wind zone. See can solar panels survive a hurricane.

Kiwa PVEL tests panels for durability every year. Its 2026 Scorecard named 43 manufacturers as Top Performers in at least one test, but for the first time no single model was a Top Performer in every test, and failure rates hit record highs. Ask your installer whether the exact model quoted has PVEL results.

Check the panel brand and price per watt on your quote with the solar quote checker, and see how much solar costs in Florida.