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Withlacoochee River Electric net metering in Florida

Pasco, Hernando, Citrus, Sumter and Marion.

Type
Cooperative
Accounts
250K

What they credit you

We confirm it for you

Not yet published here

WREC is a cooperative provider, so its terms are set by its own board rather than by any state rule. We have not yet read WREC’s own tariff, and we will not print a number we have not verified. Your installer confirms the current terms in writing before you sign. If they will not, walk away.

Installers serving WREC customers

Pick one. Only the company you choose receives your details, and only that company calls you.

Not sure which to choose?

These are real companies operating in WREC territory. EPC Solar and Bold Energy are listed first because they are the companies we introduce first. Volt Home is listed last. That order is our choice, not a score. The other companies are ordered by reviews, years trading and BBB grade. None of them pays us for placement. Pick the one you want and we will call you to arrange it.

Ordering combines three things we read from primary sources: Google review count and rating, years trading taken from the company’s Better Business Bureau profile rather than its own marketing, and its BBB letter grade. BBB accreditation is shown but never scored, because it is a paid membership rather than a mark of quality.

Check any contractor license yourself at the state register. Do that before you sign anything, with any company, including ours.

What this looks like on a WREC bill

An average Florida household, against a system sized to cover its year. The energy charge is the part that goes to zero. The fixed monthly charge underneath it is the part that never does, and it is the number that decides whether a system pays for itself.

Meter readingkWh
Energy charge$97.04
$97.04
Minimum monthly bill$39.16
Still due$39.16
DirectionReading…

Meter reading falling from 41926 to 41618 kilowatt hours. A 1,104 kilowatt hour month against 1,412 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 308 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $97.04 to $0.00 at 8.79 cents per kilowatt hour. A fixed monthly charge of $39.16 still applies and is not offset.

Florida average household use, 1,104 kWh a month, at this provider’s own published residential rate. The fixed charge is its minimum bill: it lands at zero kilowatt hours, so nothing you generate removes it. Florida PSC, Comparative Rate Statistics, 31 December 2024.

WREC requirementRequired

Battery backup is mandatory
in WREC territory.

WREC has not published a one for one credit that we have been able to verify. Until it does, we assume exporting power to WREC is worth well below what you pay to buy it back.

That does not make solar a bad idea in WREC territory. It changes what you should build. When exports are worth a fraction of retail the credit stops being the return, and the job becomes using more of your own production inside the house, which usually means a larger array than a one for one utility would need.

Sizing is where that gets decided, so ask about it directly. Florida’s state interconnection rule caps generation at 90% of your electrical distribution service rating and says nothing at all about your past usage, and it binds only the investor owned utilities. WREC sets its own limits. Ask WREC what it allows before you accept that a bigger system is off the table.

A battery then does two separate jobs. It moves daytime production into the evening so you use it instead of selling it, and it keeps the house running when the grid goes down. That second job is not a bonus. Panels on their own shut off in an outage, by design, so a roof full of them powers nothing during a storm. That is the part we will not refer around.

So we treat it as a requirement, not an upgrade. We will not refer you for a panels-only system in WREC territory, and you should be skeptical of anyone who quotes you one without raising storage first.

Our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement

What your installer should be telling you

Do not assume one for one crediting here, because WREC never says it. Florida’s rule binds the four investor owned utilities only, and WREC is a cooperative. What is certain is the floor: Rate Schedule RR charges $39.16 a month and makes that the minimum bill, so about $470 a year survives whatever your roof does. Ask WREC in writing for the Net Metering Rider by name, and for the rate that applies to a kilowatt hour exported in an ordinary month, before you sign anything. Size the system to what you actually use rather than to what the roof will hold.

What WREC bills you anyway

In a month when your production covers everything you use, the energy charge can reach zero. This does not. It is the floor under every bill, and it is the number that decides whether a system pays for itself.

The charge
$39.16 a month, and the tariff makes it the whole floor
How it is set
Rate Schedule RR, the filed residential sheet, sets a Consumer Charge of $39.16 a month and then states the minimum charge in two words: "Consumer charge." Energy is 6.030 cents for the first 1,000 kWh and 6.330 cents above that, with a fuel adjustment on top that WREC’s own filing letter put at 4.0 cents per kWh. That $39.16 is among the highest fixed monthly charges in Florida, and it is the number a solar member keeps paying whatever the roof does. It is worth $470 a year before a single kilowatt hour is bought.

Rate Schedule RR, Seventeenth Revised Sheet No. 5.1.0, effective 1 May 2025, as filed with the Florida PSC · checked 2026-09-21 · source

Applying to WREC

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

What WREC tells the Commission
In its net metering report to the Florida PSC dated 19 February 2026, WREC says it has “a true net metering system. We do not use bi-directional meters”, and that it paid members $131,942.14 in 2025 for excess energy. That describes the meter, not the rate: the Net Metering Rider that would state the rate is still not published.
Two forms, returned in person
WREC publishes a Net Metering Agreement and an Application For Renewable Generation System, both downloaded and returned to your local WREC office. There is no online portal, so build a trip into the timeline.
Who buys your surplus, and at what
Not WREC’s own retail rate. Excess generated over the course of a year goes at the avoided cost of Seminole Electric Cooperative, which is WREC’s wholesale supplier, so that part of your credit is set by a company you have no relationship with. What happens to exports in an ordinary month is not published.
The document that governs is not on the website
WREC’s Interconnection Agreement states that it does not supersede the By-Laws, "the applicable tariff, the Net Metering Rider" or any other regulation. That rider is where the crediting terms are, and WREC does not publish it, a rates page, or a tariff page anywhere on wrec.net. Ask for it by name and get the answer in writing.
WREC will not sell you a system
It states plainly that it does not install or supply PV and provides interconnection only. Any WREC branding on a sales pitch is the installer’s doing, not an endorsement.
A million dollars of liability cover, above 10 kW
The application requires "Proof of $1,000,000 liability insurance for any RGS system over 10.00 KW (AC)". At or under 10 kW AC it does not apply, which is one more reason the size decision is not only about the roof. Ask your insurer what that endorsement costs before you size the array.
WREC can end your net metering whenever it likes
The Interconnection Agreement runs one year and renews automatically, and then: "Service may be terminated at any time by the Cooperative in its sole discretion." You need thirty days’ notice to leave; WREC needs none. Nothing in the agreement ties the arrangement to the life of the system.
You indemnify the cooperative for everything
The agreement has the member "assume all liability for and shall indemnify the Cooperative for any claims, losses, costs, and expense of any kind or character due to or in any way connected with the operation of the Consumer’s equipment, its design, construction, or the negligence or the wrongful conduct of an operator". That covers your installer’s mistakes as well as your own.
No meter until WREC has inspected it, and $100 if the seal is broken
The application: "Only after the system has been inspected and the size verified, will a net meter be installed." If the contractor or electrician needs into the meter can, WREC has to remove the seal - "IF THE SEAL IS REMOVED BY OTHER THAN WREC PERSONNEL, THERE WILL BE A $100.00 TAMPERING CHARGE ASSESSED TO THE WREC MEMBER."
The paperwork is exacting and delays are on you
One multipage PDF to rgs@wrec.net, with an engineering quality one-line diagram. "Hand written or an image/picture of the application will NOT be accepted", and a package sent by post "will take longer to process". The seven digit account number from your bill has to be on it.
WREC points you at a neutral source
Its own page sends members to the Florida Solar Energy Center at the University of Central Florida for solar questions rather than to a contractor. That is a reasonable second opinion and it costs nothing.

From WREC’s published guidelines · checked 2026-09-21 · source

WREC net metering questions

Does WREC offer one for one net metering?
We have not been able to verify a published one for one credit from WREC. As a cooperative provider it is not bound by whatever state rule covers the investor owned utilities, so it sets its own terms. Ask WREC for the current export rate in writing before you sign anything.
What does WREC pay for power sent back to the grid?
WREC has not published a figure we can verify, so we do not print one. Your installer must confirm the current rate against WREC’s own tariff before you commit.
Do I need a battery with WREC?
Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because WREC does not credit exports one for one, the return has to come from using your own production rather than selling it, which after dark means storage and usually a larger array than a one for one utility would need. The other half is backup: panels alone shut off in an outage, so a battery is what keeps the house running in a storm. We do not refer panels-only systems in WREC territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
How do I find my WREC bill?
Sign in at wrec.net. Open Billing history from your account page. Download the latest statement. Or take a photo of the paper bill. If you cannot get to it, a rough guess at your average monthly amount is enough to start.
What is the catch with WREC?
Do not assume one for one crediting here, because WREC never says it. Florida’s rule binds the four investor owned utilities only, and WREC is a cooperative. What is certain is the floor: Rate Schedule RR charges $39.16 a month and makes that the minimum bill, so about $470 a year survives whatever your roof does. Ask WREC in writing for the Net Metering Rider by name, and for the rate that applies to a kilowatt hour exported in an ordinary month, before you sign anything. Size the system to what you actually use rather than to what the roof will hold.