JEA net metering in Florida

Applying to JEA

What JEA itself requires, as distinct from what the state rule requires. Read from its own published guidelines on the date shown.

It is not called net metering here

JEA runs a Distributed Generation Policy, and it distinguishes that from net metering itself. You apply for Interconnection under the DG Policy. An installer who talks about JEA "net metering" is using the wrong name for the thing you would actually be signing.

Your credit is dollars, not kilowatt hours

JEA calculates the credit as its fuel rate multiplied by the kWh you send. You are not banking kilowatt hours to be drawn back later at retail value; you are earning a cash credit at a much lower rate while still buying power back at the ordinary retail rate.

When you get paid out

Credits beyond your bill accrue through the calendar year. Any balance still there at year end is paid out at the amount set in the DG Policy.

Your neighbors’ panels can push you over a line you pay to move

JEA’s technical requirements state that the interconnection "requires a change in the service transformer if the aggregate DER output is greater than 120% of the transformer nameplate rating", and that the customer pays a contribution in aid of construction where the combined systems of the customer AND their neighbors cross that 120%. Secondary conductors may need upgrading on top. On a shared single-phase secondary a separate screen caps combined generation at 20 kW or 65% of the transformer rating. The trigger is the aggregate on your transformer, not your array alone, so a quote can be accurate in March and short in September because two neighbors went solar. Ask whose cost this is and get the answer in the contract; some installers will carry it, and none of them raise it unprompted.

Two outdoor disconnects if you add a battery

A residential system behind the meter needs a utility disconnect outside the building, lockable with a JEA padlock. If there is a permanently mounted battery, a separate battery load disconnect is required as well, also external. Stand-alone batteries and anything capable of vehicle-to-home or vehicle-to-grid count. Both need signage, and if they sit more than ten feet from the meter or out of sight of it, a further sign goes at the meter itself.

Read the technical requirements before you install

JEA publishes Technical Interconnection and Interoperability Requirements and expects them reviewed before the system goes in, not after. Questions go to distgen@jea.com.

Do not turn it on yourself

JEA publishes a separate set of steps for after installation and before switch-on. Energising ahead of that is a safety issue for line crews, and it is the fastest way to sour the relationship with the people who have to approve you.

You lose access to MyWay

Distributed Generation customers may not be enrolled in JEA MyWay, JEA’s pay-as-you-go billing program. If you are on MyWay now, going solar means coming off it. Nobody selling panels in Jacksonville mentions this.

Buying a house that already has solar

Use JEA’s Interconnection portal to file a short form and sign an Interconnection Agreement. Your account is then moved onto a PV rate. Until you do it, the credits for what that roof exports are not reaching you.

There is a concierge program, and it is free to use

JEA runs a Solar Concierge Program intended to inform customers before they buy, and separately publishes guidance for people who feel they were pressured into a rooftop solar contract. A utility publishing that is telling you something about the sales practices in its territory.

From JEA’s published guidelines · checked 2026-09-19 · source