FPL SolarTogether vs. rooftop solar

You subscribe to a share of FPL's solar energy centers in kW. FPL charges a monthly subscription fee for each kW and gives you a bill credit for the energy your share produces. No panels go on your home: the power goes to the grid.

• 2026 rates: a charge of $6.76 per kW per month, and a credit of about 3.6¢ per kWh in your first program year, rising to about 4.1¢ by year 10.
• Size: up to 100% of your last 12 months of use, so you need a year of usage history.
• Payback: FPL says credits are expected to exceed the subscription charges by the fourth year.
• Flexibility: no contract; you can cancel after the first bill without a penalty, but then you can't rejoin for 12 months, and rejoining restarts your credit schedule.

The program was approved in 2020 and expanded through FPL's 2021 rate settlement. FPL says it's open to homes, with a waitlist when space fills.

A rooftop system's power offsets what you'd otherwise buy from FPL at the full retail rate, roughly 13.7¢ per kWh in our estimates, and net metering credits exports at the same rate. A SolarTogether kWh earns about 3.6¢ in year one, before the subscription charge.

In our estimate, a 9.6 kW rooftop system for a $200 FPL bill saves about $2,012 in its first year and about $64,300 over 25 years, after a cash cost of about $25,900. Independent reviews such as SolarReviews describe SolarTogether's savings as very small next to rooftop solar, and Solar United Neighbors criticizes it as a program FPL fully owns.

Your subscription charge stays fixed while you're in the program, and FPL says the credit rate rises 1.5% a year, so the gap narrows the longer you stay. Subscriptions are sold in 1 kW steps.

The credit also depends on what FPL's 44 SolarTogether plants actually produce each month, so it moves with the weather. FPL says storm damage at the plants can lower your credit while repairs are made. If you leave and re-enroll later, your time in the program starts over and the yearly credit increases don't carry over.

FPL's program dashboard showed 126,130 customers enrolled in October 2026, homes and businesses combined. The program is open to homes and small and medium businesses, while the waitlist for large commercial and industrial customers is closed. If the residential program is full when you sign up, FPL adds you to a waitlist and enrolls you automatically when space opens.

FPL's own examples assume a typical home subscribes to at most 7 kW, which at the current charge is about $47.32 a month before credits.

• No refunds on any subscription, and leaving bars you from rejoining for 12 months.
• Changes are limited: you can increase your subscription once a year after your enrollment anniversary, if there's room.
• No ownership: FPL's terms say the subscription isn't a security or ownership interest in the plants.
• No green credits for you: FPL retires the renewable energy certificates on your behalf, so you can't claim them for tax purposes.
• Your bill rules stay the same: your minimum bill, taxes and fees still apply, and enrolling doesn't change your rate or time-of-use charges. See FPL time-of-use rates.

• Your roof is shaded, old, the wrong shape or facing the wrong way, and you don't want to reroof.
• You expect to move soon. The subscription moves with you anywhere in FPL territory if the account stays in your name.
• You want to support solar with no upfront cost and the freedom to cancel.

It doesn't give you backup power, add value to your home or stay with the house when you sell, because you don't own anything. The credits also can't take your bill below the minimum.

If you own a home with a good roof and plan to stay, rooftop solar usually returns much more, and it's the only option that can be paired with a battery to keep your power on in a hurricane outage. See is solar worth it in Florida and solar battery backup for hurricanes.

Compare rooftop quotes with the solar savings calculator and the solar quote checker.

• Duke Energy Florida's Clean Energy Connection, approved in January 2021, works like SolarTogether: a monthly subscription per kW, under about $8.35, in exchange for bill credits from 10 Duke solar plants, all running by 2025.
• Tampa Electric's Sun Select lets customers match part of their use with solar for a premium price, so it raises bills rather than lowering them. TECO's FAQ says rooftop solar customers aren't eligible.

See why your Duke Energy bill is so high and why your TECO bill is so high.

See Duke Clean Energy Connection vs. rooftop solar for the fees, credits and payback.