Hollywood solar starts at the county, not on your roof

One line on a fee schedule does a lot of work

The city's Comprehensive Schedule of Fees, adopted by Resolution R-2025-363 and effective immediately on adoption, prices a Photovoltaic System permit, solar panels with stationary energy storage included, at $160 flat. The second plan review costs nothing, and every review after the second bills at $40 per 15 minutes. Contrast that with the general building formula in the same resolution: a $100 minimum on work up to $1,000, then 10.00 percent of the first $1,000, 2.20 percent up to $1 million, and tighter percentages above. On a typical rooftop array, the flat PV line saves real money versus valuation pricing, and the reviewer-time meter after review two is a built-in penalty for sloppy submittals. A contractor who gets it right by the second pass costs you $160. One who needs a fourth pass is spending your money at $40 per quarter hour.

Who is allowed to pull the permit is a two contractor question

Hollywood's Solar Photovoltaic System Checklist encodes a licensing structure that surprises buyers from anywhere else. If an electrical contractor holding an EC license pulls the solar permit, a roofing contractor with a CCC license must pull a separate structural sub permit for the panel attachment. The one-contractor path exists only for a solar contractor holding a CVC license, who can pull the permit without a roofing sub, but still needs an EC licensed electrical contractor on the job. Either way, two licenses touch your roof.

Use that as a bid filter. Ask each company which license pulls the main permit and who handles the structural attachment sub permit. A clean answer takes ten seconds. A muddled one predicts the change orders. The rest of the required package, per the same checklist: the Broward County Uniform Permit Application from a licensed electrical or solar contractor, a scale roof plan with panel locations, an electrical diagram covering array configuration, wiring, overcurrent protection, the inverter disconnect, grounding, and the AC connection, plus spec sheets and installation manuals for every component.

FPL nets monthly, banks for a year, then pays wholesale

Florida's net metering baseline comes from Statute 366.91, and the operating rules live in Rule 25-6.065. The cycle works like this: the utility installs two-way metering at no additional cost, excess generation in any billing cycle becomes a kWh credit against the next month, and those credits can stack for as long as twelve months. When the calendar year closes, the leftover balance converts to cash at an average annual rate keyed to the COG-1 as available energy tariff, a wholesale figure well below retail. The design lesson is the same one the rule quietly teaches everywhere in Florida: size near your actual consumption. Overbuild and your surplus eventually converts at the cheap rate.

The friendly parts deserve equal billing. A typical Hollywood rooftop lands in Tier 1, 10 kW or less, and the rule forbids charging Tier 1 customers any fee, application fees included, that retail customers without self generation do not pay. Requiring liability insurance at Tier 1 is off the table too. The rule also sets clocks the utility must honor: a completeness response within 10 business days, an executed interconnection agreement within 30 calendar days of a complete application, and at least 10 days customer notice before first energizing. Two sizing constraints to know on paper: gross power rating may not exceed 90 percent of your distribution service rating, and inverter systems count AC nameplate as DC nameplate times 0.85. FPL itself is enormous, roughly 11 million people served across 35 counties, with Broward generating sites including the Dania Beach Clean Energy Center next door, per the Ten Year Site Plan.

Coastal output, modeled without the brochure gloss

Our downtown Hollywood run models 1578.4 kWh per year per installed kW, and the shape of the curve matters more than the total. March leads at 153.2 kWh per kW while July manages only 128.4, because early summer convection and cloud buildup take a real bite out of the season national calculators assume is peak. June, at 121.5, models below both January and February.

PVGIS v5.2 model run by Solar Learning Lab on August 30, 2026, NSRDB radiation database. Fixed south facing mount, 30 degree tilt, 14 percent losses, downtown Hollywood coordinates. Your roof will differ. Model documentation lives at PVGIS. Hollywood's geography frames the market: 153,067 residents at the 2020 census on 30.78 square miles of southeastern Broward, with about 5 to 6 miles of Atlantic beachfront, per the city profile. Salt air is a maintenance variable on coastal blocks; ask what corrosion rating your racking carries.

Crews working Broward roofs

The list includes shops based in Hollywood itself and nearby. Our two screening questions for this market: which license class pulls your permit here, and who produces the sealed HVHZ engineering. Companies that work this county weekly answer both without checking.

Ratings snapshot: Google Maps, August 2026, via the DataForSEO SERP feed. Zero companies paid us and none are endorsed by us.

Florida Electric & Solar

North Miami, FL

★★★★★★★★★★5.0(76 Google reviews)

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Sun Electronics

Miami Gardens, FL

★★★★★★★★★★4.6(54 Google reviews)

Solar Prime Usa

Hollywood, FL

★★★★★★★★★★4.9(45 Google reviews)

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Solar Champs LLC

Hollywood, FL

★★★★★★★★★★4.4(38 Google reviews)

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Smart Planet Solar - Solar Panel Installer

Fort Lauderdale, FL

★★★★★★★★★★5.0(15 Google reviews)

Ratings and review counts are Google Maps ratings for Hollywood local results, retrieved August 17, 2026 via the DataForSEO SERP API. We list the highest rated established companies we found. No company paid to appear here, and appearing here is not an endorsement. Check current reviews and licensing before you sign anything.

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