Solar
Generate more of your own electricity.
Daylight covers the part of your bill that daylight can. What that is worth depends on how much you use, when you use it, and which utility reads your meter.
Explore solarEnergy, figured out.
Solar and battery storage, worked out for your Florida home from sourced numbers and stated assumptions.
See what fits your home
Four questions: where you are, how much electricity you use, what you are trying to achieve, and whether you want backup. You see the result before we ask who you are.
No phone number. No email address until there is something to send you.
Battery
Keep the essential things running.
A battery is about continuous output and usable capacity, not headline kilowatt-hours. Which circuits you want covered decides the equipment before price enters it.
Explore batterySolar + battery
Make it. Store it. Use it.
Generate in daylight, hold the surplus, draw it back in the evening. The two products answer different questions, and together they answer a third.
Explore solar + batteryThe system
Electricity goes where it is needed, in that order.
Solar, storage and the grid are not three purchases. They are one system with a priority order, and almost every confusing number in a solar quote comes from missing it.
Power that does not depend on perfect weather.
Outages happen in Florida, and a battery can carry selected circuits — or a whole home, depending on how the system is designed and what your panel supports.
How long it lasts is a function of what you choose to run, not a number a website can tell you. That is why our battery calculator asks you which loads matter instead of printing an hours figure.
Your utility matters more than your city
Service territories do not follow city limits, and the rules differ sharply. Investor-owned utilities operate net metering under Florida PSC Rule 25-6.065. Municipal utilities and cooperatives set their own programmes, so two homeowners with identical roofs can face genuinely different economics.
- Florida Power & LightPSC rule applies
- Duke Energy FloridaPSC rule applies
- Tampa ElectricPSC rule applies
- JEASets own programme
- Lee County Electric CooperativeSets own programme
- Orlando Utilities CommissionSets own programme
Four steps, and you can stop after the second.
Tell us about your home
Where you are and how much electricity you use. Four questions, no phone number.
See what fits
System size, production ceiling and battery scenarios — with every assumption named.
Review a real design
When you are ready, a detailed design and quotation from a licensed local partner.
Installation
The physical work is done by appropriately licensed Florida professionals. Helio41 is not a contractor.
Worth knowing first
The 30% federal Residential Clean Energy Credit ended for systems placed in service after 31 December 2025. A great deal of solar content still assumes it exists, which makes every payback figure built on it wrong by roughly a third of the system cost.
What changed, and what Florida still offersQuestions Florida homeowners ask
Can I add a battery to an existing solar system?
Usually yes. Whether it is simple or expensive depends on your existing inverter and whether the battery is AC-coupled or DC-coupled.
Can my HOA stop me installing solar panels in Florida?
No. Florida law prevents a homeowners association or deed restriction from prohibiting solar. What an HOA can still decide, what it cannot, and the 45-degree rule that decides who wins an argument about roof placement.
Do I need a new roof before installing solar?
How to decide, using the number that actually matters: remaining roof life against the 25-year life of the array. Plus what removal and reinstallation costs you if you get the order wrong.
Do I need a permit for a home battery in Florida?
Yes. A home battery is permitted electrical and often structural work, not an appliance you plug in. What the permit covers, why the inspection matters, and what an unpermitted install costs you later.
Do I need a structural engineer’s letter for solar in Florida?
Usually yes, and in Miami-Dade or Broward almost certainly. What the letter actually certifies, who is allowed to sign it, and why a generic one gets rejected.
Do I pay sales tax on solar panels in Florida?
No. Florida Statutes §212.08(7)(hh) exempts solar energy systems and their components from Florida sales and use tax.
Guides worth reading first
All guidesA battery without solar — does it make sense?
Installing storage on its own gives you backup without a roof project. What it does, what it cannot do, and when it is the right order to do things in.
Hurricane backup power in Florida — planning guide
How to plan backup power for a Florida home before hurricane season: what to back up, how batteries and generators differ, and what to decide before the storm forms.
Should I replace my roof before installing solar?
How to decide whether your Florida roof should be replaced before an array goes on it, and what removal and reinstallation costs if you get the order wrong.
Florida, by place
Each place page states which utility serves it and what that changes.
All of FloridaWhat should solar cost for your home?
Tell us where you are and how much electricity you use. We will show you what the data supports, and be straight with you about the rest.
See your optionsPrefer to talk it through? Contact us