Solar panels in Volusia County, FL

• Volusia County takes permit applications for unincorporated areas through its ConnectLive portal, where you can upload documents, pay fees and schedule inspections.
• During Hurricane Milton in October 2024, about 3 in 5 Volusia County electric accounts (199,379 of 322,132) were without power at one point, per the Public Service Commission.
• FPL's storm protection plan lists flood-mitigation work at its South Daytona substation (completed 2024) and Port Orange substation (scheduled for 2026).
• FPL's 2025 report to the Public Service Commission lists 5,934 customer-owned solar systems on its lines in Volusia County, 730 of them connected in 2025, by our count. See Florida solar by county.

Permits and zoning rules are set town by town. Highlights from each town's own rules:

• Daytona Beach: Daytona Beach handles permits through an online portal (iMS), which went live in 2024 and replaced the city's older TRAKit system.
• DeBary: Hurricane Milton in October 2024 left DeBary streets heavily flooded, and longtime residents told News 6 it was worse than Hurricane Ian in 2022.
• DeLand: Duke Energy Florida buried about 38 miles of power lines in DeLand, a project expected to benefit nearly 20,000 customers, starting in 2022.
• Deltona: Hurricane Milton dropped more than 15 inches of rain on Deltona in October 2024, and the city reported 19 roads closed by flooding.
• Edgewater: Hurricane Milton dropped 8 to 10 inches of rain on Edgewater in October 2024, two years after Ian flooded the city, and some residents were still recovering six months later.
• Lake Helen: Lake Helen has its own Building Department, which accepts Volusia County building permit forms.
• Ormond Beach: Hurricane Milton in October 2024 dropped heavy rain on Ormond Beach (city officials cited 23 inches over 18 hours) and flooded 45 homes, mostly near Central Park and Ormond Beach Middle School. A 2009 rain event had flooded more than 100.
• Ormond-by-the-Sea: During Hurricane Milton in October 2024, an 8-inch water main broke and left residents on the North Peninsula in Ormond-by-the-Sea without water, and streets such as John Anderson Drive flooded.
• Ponce Inlet: Hurricane Ian dropped about 21 inches of rain on Ponce Inlet in 2022, according to the National Weather Service, and some streets stayed flooded for days because the stormwater system couldn't keep up.
• Port Orange: Hurricane Milton brought more than 18 inches of rain to Port Orange in four days, 13 of them in 24 hours, on top of a 5-foot storm surge, the city reported in October 2024.
• Samsula-Spruce Creek: Spruce Creek Airport, the heart of the Spruce Creek Fly-In, began as a World War II Navy outlying field, was abandoned in 1946 and reopened as a private residential airport in 1974; the property owners association owns it.
• South Daytona: Hurricane Ian flooded hundreds of South Daytona homes in 2022; city officials said the canals that drain the city had nowhere to send the water because the Halifax River was flooded too.

Each town page has the full details and sources.

No. Under Florida law (s. 193.624), the value a solar system adds to a home isn't counted in its assessed value. If you're unsure whether anything needs to be filed, ask the Volusia County Property Appraiser.

Solar equipment is also exempt from Florida sales tax, so it's already left out of the installed price.

FPL and Duke Energy credits the solar you send to the grid as a kWh credit at the full retail rate. Unused credits roll forward for up to 12 months, and anything left at year-end is paid out at only a few cents per kWh, so systems are sized to cover a year of use. Solar can't take a bill below the monthly minimum ($30 at FPL, $30 at Duke Energy).

See the full FPL solar guide. See the full Duke Energy solar guide.

Choosing a company? Check each installer's Florida license, compare at least two quotes and run them through our solar quote checker.