Florida electricity rates, bills and electric companies

What Florida homes pay per kWh

Over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026, Florida's residential customers paid an average of 15.41¢ per kWh: total residential revenue divided by kilowatt-hours sold, so fixed monthly charges and fuel adjustments are included and most taxes are not. That was 2.63¢ per kWh less than the US average and the 23rd lowest among the 50 states and DC. Of Florida's 2 neighbors, Georgia averaged less (15.17¢ per kWh) and Alabama more (16.44¢ per kWh¹) over the same 12 months.

The latest month went against the national trend. In August 2026 the residential average was 14.99¢ per kWh, −2.2% against August 2025, the 4th lowest change among the states, while the US average moved +3.4%¹. Monthly figures for 2026 are preliminary.

Florida's price per kWh tends to move against use. Over the last 12 months it ranged from 14.99¢ per kWh in August 2026 to 15.92¢ per kWh in January 2026¹. Part of that pattern is arithmetic: fixed customer charges are spread over many more kilowatt-hours in a summer month, which lowers the average. The table puts each month's price next to use per home.

The average Florida electric bill

The average residential bill was $167.86 a month in 2025, $17.18 more a month than the US average and up 7.5% from 2024. The reason is volume, not price: the average Florida home used 1,103 kWh a month in 2025, the 6th highest among the states, against 874 kWh² nationally. Over the last 12 months the computed bill was $168.99¹.

Florida averaged 3,429 cooling degree days a year from 2016 to 2025, the highest of the states NOAA covers, and only 443 heating degree days, the lowest⁴. EIA's 2020 household survey put air conditioning at 30% of a Florida household's electricity use, 3rd highest among the states. Although 89.4% of Florida homes heat mainly with electricity (the highest⁶ share in 2025), winters are mild enough that heating took only 7%⁵ of household use in 2020.

Use per home peaked at 1,477 kWh in July 2026 and fell to 855 kWh in November 2025, so the peak month used 1.7 times as much as the lowest. In August 2026 the average bill was $217.28 for 1,449 kWh¹.

Households' own reports, which include taxes, show the same skew. In the Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey, the median Florida household paying for electricity reported about $180 for the previous month, against $169 nationally; 28.7% reported $250 or more (margin of error ±0.3 percentage points) and 17.6%⁷ less than $100.

Under $50$50–99$100–149$150–199$200–249$250 or more

Florida

United States

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, table B25132. Households charged for electricity, by the cost they reported for the previous month (American Community Survey 2025, 1-year). Interviews run all year, so this is a typical month, recalled by the household; households whose electricity is included in rent are left out.

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	Under $50	$50–99	$100–149	$150–199	$200–249	$250 or more
Florida	2.6%	15.0%	21.4%	18.2%	14.2%	28.7%
United States	5.2%	17.9%	20.7%	16.7%	13.0%	26.6%

Florida's electric companies

Florida has no retail choice: 0.0% of residential customers bought from a competitive supplier in 2025. Each home buys from the utility that owns the wires on its street. Investor-owned utilities served 7,951,939 residential customers in 2025, public power (city utilities and authorities) 1,396,809 and electric cooperatives 1,251,289³.

The three groups charged different averages. Residential customers of the investor-owned utilities paid 15.69¢ per kWh in 2025, cooperative members 14.43¢ per kWh and public power customers 13.17¢ per kWh. Among the 36 utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, averages ran from 10.96¢ per kWh at City of New Smyrna Beach (the city utility of New Smyrna Beach) to 18.44¢ per kWh at Tri-County Electric Cooperative, a spread of 7.48¢ per kWh³.

The largest utilities differ on both price and use, so their bills and their prices do not line up. In 2025:

• Florida Power & Light: 14.62¢ per kWh, a bill of $162.38 for 1,111 kWh, 3.9% below the Florida average.
• Duke Energy Florida: 18.36¢ per kWh, the 2nd highest among the state's larger utilities, a bill of $185.26.
• Tampa Electric: 17.32¢ per kWh, a bill of $193.55 for 1,117 kWh.
• JEA in Jacksonville: 13.84¢ per kWh, a bill of $146.38.
• OUC in Orlando: 13.22¢ per kWh, a bill of $128.69 on 974 kWh³.

OUC (FL)$128.69

Lakeland Electric (FL)$136.09

JEA (FL)$146.38

Florida Power & Light (FL)$162.38

LCEC (FL)$166.98

Clay Electric Cooperative (FL)$171.01

Duke Energy Florida (FL)$185.26

Tampa Electric (FL)$193.55

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	average monthly residential bill
OUC (FL)	$128.69
Lakeland Electric (FL)	$136.09
JEA (FL)	$146.38
Florida Power & Light (FL)	$162.38
LCEC (FL)	$166.98
Clay Electric Cooperative (FL)	$171.01
Duke Energy Florida (FL)	$185.26
Tampa Electric (FL)	$193.55

Tampa, Orlando, Ocala, South Florida: which utility serves you

EIA publishes no city electricity prices; what a city's homes pay depends on the utility serving each address, and in 64 of Florida's 67 counties two or more utilities report customers. Alachua County (Gainesville) has the most, 7⁸.

• Tampa area. Tampa Electric reports customers in Hillsborough County, Pasco County, Pinellas County and Polk County; Duke Energy Florida and Peace River Electric Cooperative also report customers in Hillsborough County. Tampa Electric's average bill over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) was $201.50.
• Orlando area. OUC reports customers in Orange County and Osceola County, alongside Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy Florida and other utilities. OUC's average residential price fell 13.3% from 2024 to 2025.
• Ocala and Marion County. The City of Ocala's municipal utility, Duke Energy Florida, SECO Energy, Clay Electric Cooperative and Central Florida Electric Cooperative all report customers in the county. SECO Energy averaged 14.98¢ per kWh in 2025, Clay Electric 14.02¢ per kWh³.
• South Florida. Florida Power & Light reports customers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, alongside the City of Homestead in Miami-Dade, the City of Lake Worth Beach in Palm Beach and LCEC, whose territory covers Broward County, Charlotte County, Collier County, Hendry County, Lee County and Monroe County⁸. FPL's average bill over the last 12 months was $165.74⁹.

The map shows the counties each large utility serves; the full county list follows at the end of the page. Each utility's own service-area map decides for a given address.

Florida Power & Light only (of these)Duke Energy Florida only (of these)Tampa Electric only (of these)JEA only (of these)OUC only (of these)Two or more of themOther utilities only

Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. Counties where each utility reports serving customers (EIA-861 service territory, 2025). A utility often serves only part of a county, and several can share one: the map shows where each one is present, not street-level boundaries. Point at a county for every utility listed there.

Are Florida electricity rates going up?

The annual average rose sharply in 2025; the most recent months are mixed. The annual residential average went from 14.14¢ per kWh in 2024 to 15.21¢ per kWh in 2025, up 7.6%, the 11th highest¹¹ increase among the states. The rise was uneven: Tampa Electric's average climbed 18.1%, Duke Energy Florida's 10.4% and Florida Power & Light's 6.6%, while OUC's fell 13.3%³.

Over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) the state average changed by +4.4% against the 12 before; the US average changed by +6.5%. In August 2026¹ alone, against the same month a year earlier, the change was −17.6% at Duke Energy Florida, −6.8% at Tampa Electric, +1.0% at Florida Power & Light and +5.5%⁹ at JEA. Single months are preliminary and can be revised.

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Source: EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Average revenue per kWh (all charges, nominal dollars), each month; summer and winter months differ by season. Monthly EIA data through August 2026 (released October 23, 2026); months since January 2026 are preliminary.

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Period	Florida (¢/kWh)	United States (¢/kWh)
Jan 2021	11.47¢	12.62¢
Feb 2021	11.79¢	13.01¢
Mar 2021	11.53¢	13.24¢
Apr 2021	11.68¢	13.73¢
May 2021	11.76¢	13.86¢
Jun 2021	11.88¢	13.83¢
Jul 2021	11.78¢	13.83¢
Aug 2021	11.84¢	13.92¢
Sep 2021	12.34¢	14.14¢
Oct 2021	12.12¢	14.06¢
Nov 2021	12.49¢	14.07¢
Dec 2021	12.09¢	13.72¢
Jan 2022	13.45¢	13.64¢
Feb 2022	13.74¢	13.76¢
Mar 2022	13.47¢	14.41¢
Apr 2022	13.67¢	14.57¢
May 2022	13.52¢	14.89¢
Jun 2022	13.85¢	15.30¢
Jul 2022	13.91¢	15.31¢
Aug 2022	14.06¢	15.82¢
Sep 2022	14.55¢	16.19¢
Oct 2022	14.19¢	15.99¢
Nov 2022	13.98¢	15.55¢
Dec 2022	14.21¢	14.94¢
Jan 2023	14.89¢	15.47¢
Feb 2023	15.82¢	15.98¢
Mar 2023	14.65¢	16.04¢
Apr 2023	15.72¢	16.10¢
May 2023	15.09¢	16.14¢
Jun 2023	15.23¢	16.09¢
Jul 2023	14.94¢	15.86¢
Aug 2023	14.89¢	15.91¢
Sep 2023	15.48¢	16.27¢
Oct 2023	15.45¢	16.48¢
Nov 2023	15.37¢	16.19¢
Dec 2023	15.20¢	15.69¢
Jan 2024	14.72¢	15.41¢
Feb 2024	15.24¢	16.10¢
Mar 2024	14.65¢	16.67¢
Apr 2024	14.63¢	16.86¢
May 2024	13.61¢	16.40¢
Jun 2024	13.86¢	16.38¢
Jul 2024	13.71¢	16.62¢
Aug 2024	13.60¢	16.60¢
Sep 2024	14.01¢	16.82¢
Oct 2024	14.16¢	17.09¢
Nov 2024	14.23¢	16.85¢
Dec 2024	14.19¢	16.27¢
Jan 2025	14.48¢	15.92¢
Feb 2025	15.01¢	16.40¢
Mar 2025	14.99¢	17.03¢
Apr 2025	15.14¢	17.20¢
May 2025	14.89¢	17.33¢
Jun 2025	15.28¢	17.44¢
Jul 2025	15.04¢	17.39¢
Aug 2025	15.33¢	17.57¢
Sep 2025	15.77¢	18.05¢
Oct 2025	15.72¢	17.95¢
Nov 2025	15.79¢	17.77¢
Dec 2025	15.04¢	17.11¢
Jan 2026	15.92¢	17.45¢
Feb 2026	15.80¢	17.65¢
Mar 2026	15.37¢	18.60¢
Apr 2026	15.61¢	18.86¢
May 2026	15.17¢	18.44¢
Jun 2026	15.10¢	18.34¢
Jul 2026	15.03¢	18.31¢
Aug 2026	14.99¢	18.16¢

Over the long run Florida's prices have risen more slowly than the nation's. The annual residential average was 8.59¢ per kWh in 2001, almost the same as the US (8.58¢ per kWh¹²); by 2025 Florida's had risen 77.1% and the US average 100.8%. Since 2010 Florida's increase, 33.0%, was the 5th lowest among the states. The annual average last fell in 2024¹¹.

Natural gas makes most of Florida's power

Natural gas generated 73.0% of Florida's electricity in 2025, the 5th highest share among the states and up 7.4 percentage points since 2015. Nuclear plants produced 11.4% and solar 9.3%, up from 0.1% in 2015; coal fell from 18.1% to 3.8%, and wind produced 0.0%. The state's plants generated the equivalent of 104%¹³ of its retail sales.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's 2026 review of retail electricity prices reports a change of +36.0%¹⁴ in the price of natural gas delivered to US power plants from 2024 to 2025; the review does not break that effect down for Florida.

Natural gasCoalNuclearHydroWindSolarPetroleumOther

Florida, 2025

Florida, 2015

United States, 2025

Source: EIA, Net generation by state by type of producer by energy source. Share of net generation by all power plants located in the state (utilities and independent producers), by energy source. Electricity crosses state lines, so this is what the state produces, not exactly what its customers consume. Pumped storage is a net user of power and is left out.

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	Natural gas	Coal	Nuclear	Hydro	Wind	Solar	Petroleum	Other
Florida, 2025	73.0%	3.8%	11.4%	0.1%	0.0%	9.3%	0.5%	2.0%
Florida, 2015	65.6%	18.1%	11.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.9%	3.4%
United States, 2025	40.9%	16.6%	17.7%	5.5%	10.4%	6.8%	0.4%	1.7%

Businesses pay less per kWh than homes

Commercial customers paid an average of 11.74¢ per kWh over the last 12 months, 15.4% below the US average, and industrial customers 9.13¢ per kWh, 2.5% above the US average. Their averages rose 4.1% and 5.0%¹ against the previous 12 months. The average commercial bill was $730.65² a month in 2025.

FloridaUnited States

Residential15.41¢ 18.04¢

Commercial11.74¢ 13.87¢

Industrial9.13¢ 8.91¢

All sectors13.57¢ 14.15¢

Source: EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Average revenue per kWh: what each customer class paid in total divided by what it used. Industrial customers take power at higher voltage and in large, steady volumes, so their average is lower. Monthly EIA data through August 2026 (released October 23, 2026); months since January 2026 are preliminary.

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Sector	Florida (¢/kWh)	United States (¢/kWh)
Residential	15.41¢	18.04¢
Commercial	11.74¢	13.87¢
Industrial	9.13¢	8.91¢
All sectors	13.57¢	14.15¢

Outages, smart meters and rooftop solar

Florida customers averaged 70 minutes without power in 2025 including major events, the 2nd lowest total among the states, and 63 minutes excluding them, with 0.85 interruptions per customer. Results varied by utility: Florida Power & Light reported 47 minutes, Duke Energy Florida 87 minutes and Tampa Electric 112 minutes¹⁵. The ranking of power outages by state sets these figures against the rest of the country.

Smart meters are almost universal: 96.2% of residential meters were advanced meters in 2025. Few homes use that for time-varying pricing; 0.1% of residential customers were enrolled in time-of-use or similar rates. Utilities reported 319,411 net-metered rooftop solar installations on homes in 2025, 29.9¹⁶ per 1,000 residential customers.

Help paying a Florida electric bill

Florida received $121.6 million from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for fiscal 2026, and $104.5 million in the first release for fiscal 2027. Per occupied home, the fiscal 2026 amount was $13.04, the 2nd lowest¹⁷ among the states. The help paying your electric bill guide explains LIHEAP and utility payment programs.

EIA's averages leave out most taxes, so the amount due on a Florida bill is higher than the figures on this page; taxes and fees appear as separate lines on the bill.