Kissimmee Utility Authority net metering in Florida

Applying to KUA

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

KUA is not allowed to buy your solar, so FMPA does

This is why there is a third signature on the paperwork. KUA has an all-requirements power supply contract with the Florida Municipal Power Agency, dated 28 June 2002, under which FMPA supplies all the energy KUA needs, and the agreement itself records that this "limits KUA’s ability to directly purchase excess energy from customer-owned renewable generation". FMPA agreed to buy it instead. So you sign a Tri-Party Net Metering Power Purchase Agreement, and the rate you are paid is set in a contract between KUA and a wholesale agency you have no relationship with, not in KUA’s published tariff.

There is a second credit, for demand, and it is the one with a deadline

Separately from the energy credit, and outside the Tri-Party agreement, KUA pays a demand credit for lowering its billed coincident peak. For most customers that is KUA’s avoided cost rate multiplied by the kilowatt hours you returned. But premises that were already on the tariff, or had submitted every required document signed and an active solar permit, by 31 May 2023 are grandfathered onto a better calculation: an average class load factor is used to estimate the demand you returned, and that is credited at KUA’s invoiced demand rate. The grandfathered treatment ends at the earlier of 31 October 2028 or the property changing hands, so if you are buying a house with panels in Kissimmee, find out which side of that line it sits on before you close.

Unused credits follow you out

Credits above your bill accumulate and roll onto later bills, and the tariff says that if you close the account, any unused credits are paid by KUA. That is better than most of Florida, where an unused balance is simply forfeited or bought out at a token rate.

A $320 fee, by check, in the post

Tier 2 systems carry a non-refundable $320 application fee that must be paid by check made out to Kissimmee Utility Authority, marked Attention: Tellers, at 1701 W. Carroll Street.

Put your address on the check or it comes back

KUA requires the service address or the customer account number on the check itself, and states plainly that otherwise it is returned to sender. That is weeks lost to a detail nobody would think to ask about.

Permit first, then apply

You cannot submit until Notice of Commencement or issued permit status has been achieved. Several other Florida utilities want the opposite order, so an installer working across territories can easily file this one too early.

Three specific signature pages

The homeowner must personally sign pages 3, 13 and 19 of the interconnection application. Highlighted fields on page one and everything on the remaining pages are required.

What the timeline actually looks like

Up to 5 business days for KUA to acknowledge the application, then up to 30 days for approval, then up to 10 business days for the bidirectional service order and permission to operate. Add those up before you promise anyone a switch-on date.

Buying a house with panels? Get it notarized

The New Owner RGS Packet requires the first page to be notarized, and page 7 signed. KUA offers free notary service to its customers at the Carroll Street main office, which saves paying for one elsewhere.

Adding panels means documenting what is already there

Upgrades and additions must list the existing inverter model, panel model, panel count and wattage per panel in Section 2. If your original installer has gone quiet, gather that before you plan an expansion.

Insurance at Tier 2

$1,000,000 liability cover, with proof supplied alongside the application rather than afterwards. Tier 3 is handled case by case; KUA asks you to contact it directly.

From KUA’s published guidelines · checked 2026-08-26 · source