Solar Design Services in Florida

Proposal design for the sales stage, permit plan sets for Florida authorities, 3D pre-design and shade studies, detailed engineering for rooftop and ground mount, civil and structural engineering with STAAD Pro verification, and yield and technical reports. Most Florida installers start with one service and expand once turnaround and quality are proven.

Yes, and it is the substance of the work rather than a claim. Florida runs a single statewide building code, which is unusually uniform for a large state, but it carves out the High Velocity Hurricane Zone in Miami-Dade and Broward counties with materially stricter requirements. It also operates a product approval system, so the equipment itself needs documented approval rather than just a listing.

Florida Power and Light, Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Electric, JEA, Orlando Utilities Commission. Each expects its own diagram format and documentation, and export rules differ between them, which changes both the sizing case and what the drawings must show.

Florida combines a very large residential market with the strictest wind requirements in the continental United States, and the two facts pull in opposite directions. Volume rewards speed while HVHZ rewards documentation depth. Installers working across the state effectively run two different products: a standard Florida Building Code set for most of the state, and a substantially heavier package for Miami-Dade and Broward. Recent permitting reform has pushed for faster residential turnaround, which raises the premium on submittals that are right first time.

Yes. Commercial and industrial work brings structural calculations, equipment coordination and interconnection complexity. Our largest documented project is an 11 MW DC rooftop installation on tin shed structures, which required structural verification across dozens of shed roofs alongside the electrical design.

A second engineer reviews every set against a jurisdiction specific checklist before it leaves us. The reviewer is not the person who drew it, because the fastest way to miss a setback error is to check your own work. Structural output is verified in STAAD Pro rather than assumed from a racking table.

You do. Work is covered by NDA and all intellectual property in the deliverables transfers to you. We do not reuse your drawings, your customer data or your templates for anyone else.

Yes. No retainer, no minimum volume, no onboarding fee. Most clients send one project, check the output, then scale.

Wind: the governing design consideration statewide. Design wind speeds range from roughly 140 mph inland to 170 to 180 mph for typical risk category structures in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone. Snow: none. Seismic: negligible. Also governing: hVHZ product approval, salt corrosion on coastal sites, and roof condition scrutiny because hurricane exposure makes attachment integrity the dominant failure mode. These decide the racking selection and attachment schedule, so we verify them per site rather than applying a regional default.

Florida Building Code applied statewide rather than by local adoption. High Velocity Hurricane Zone provisions in Miami-Dade and Broward. Florida Product Approval, with Notice of Acceptance documentation in Miami-Dade. Roof replacement provisions that can pull reroofing scope into a solar project. We work from these rather than a national template, because each can produce a review comment on an otherwise sound design.

Miami-Dade Regulatory and Economic Resources (Miami-Dade County): high Velocity Hurricane Zone. Every component needs Notice of Acceptance documentation and structural calculations must address HVHZ wind pressures explicitly. Broward County Building Code Division (Broward County): also HVHZ. Requirements parallel Miami-Dade but the submittal process and documentation expectations are not identical. City of Orlando Permitting Services (Orlando): outside HVHZ, so standard Florida Building Code wind provisions apply, with a faster residential path than the south Florida counties. City of Tampa Construction Services (Tampa): coastal wind exposure without HVHZ status, which is a distinct middle ground in documentation terms. City of Jacksonville (Duval County): works alongside JEA as a municipal utility, so interconnection and permitting run on a different track from investor-owned territory.

Design for materially higher wind pressures, roughly 170 to 180 mph for typical risk category residential structures, plus component-level product approval. In Miami-Dade that means Notice of Acceptance documentation for modules, racking and attachments proving wind resistance, and structural calculations sealed by a Florida professional engineer that address HVHZ pressures explicitly rather than citing generic code wind loads.

Miami-Dade and Broward. Neighbouring counties such as Palm Beach carry high wind design requirements but are not HVHZ, which is a genuinely different documentation burden. Installers working the south Florida corridor cross that boundary regularly, so it is worth confirming per project rather than per region.