OUC (Orlando Utilities Commission) electric rates and bills

What OUC homes paid per kWh in 2025

OUC, the Orlando Utilities Commission, is a municipal utility, Orlando's city utility. It served 254,552 residential customers in 2025, 2.4% of Florida's and the fifth-largest number after Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Electric and JEA¹.

Those customers paid an average of 13.22¢ per kWh¹ in 2025. Average revenue per kWh is what OUC billed its residential customers in total, divided by the kWh they bought: the customer charge, the energy charge and the fuel charge are all inside it, most taxes are not. A home using less than the average pays more per kWh than this figure, a home using more pays less.

On that figure OUC was:

• 13.1% below the Florida average (15.21¢ per kWh², all providers, 2025);
• 11th lowest of the 36 Florida utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers;
• 42nd lowest of 177 US utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, where the median was 15.07¢ per kWh;
• 8.8% below the national average for public power (14.49¢ per kWh¹).

Unlike FPL, Duke Energy Florida or JEA, OUC is not in the sample of utilities EIA surveys every month (form EIA-861M), so no 12-month or latest-month average exists for OUC alone. The closest monthly reading is the statewide one: Florida's residential customers paid 15.41¢ per kWh over the 12 months September 2025 to August 2026 and 14.99¢ per kWh in August 2026³ (preliminary), averages that cover every provider in the state, not OUC.

Down in 2025 while the rest of Florida went up

From 2024 to 2025, OUC's residential average fell from 15.24¢ per kWh⁴ to 13.22¢ per kWh¹. Each of Florida's other utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers moved the opposite way:

Source: EIA-861, 2024 and 2025 final; bundled residential customers.

The reversal shows against the state average: in 2024 OUC's 15.24¢ per kWh⁴ was above the Florida average of 14.14¢ per kWh²; in 2025 it was 13.1% below the Florida average¹. EIA's annual figures do not separate the fuel charge from base charges, and OUC has no monthly series to show when in the year the average moved, so the data alone do not say which part of the bill came down.

The lowest average bill among Florida's large utilities

Use per home edged down too, from 984 kWh a month in 2024 to 974 kWh in 2025, so the average bill fell slightly more than the price: from $149.91⁴ to $128.69 (−14.2%¹). Over the same years Florida's average residential bill rose 7.5%, to $167.86, the 7th highest⁵ among the states.

OUC homes use less electricity than most in Florida: 974 kWh a month, against 1,103 kWh⁵ statewide and 1,111 kWh at FPL. Air conditioning took 30% of Florida household electricity use in EIA's 2020 household survey, 3rd highest⁶ among the states. Lower use and a lower price together put OUC's 2025 bill below City of Tallahassee Utilities ($130.50), Lakeland Electric ($136.09) and JEA ($146.38¹), and well below the investor-owned utilities.

OUC (FL)$128.69

City of Tallahassee Utilities (FL)$130.50

Lakeland Electric (FL)$136.09

JEA (FL)$146.38

Florida Power & Light (FL)$162.38

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
City of Tallahassee Utilities (FL)	$130.50
Lakeland Electric (FL)	$136.09
JEA (FL)	$146.38
Florida Power & Light (FL)	$162.38
Duke Energy Florida (FL)	$185.26
Tampa Electric (FL)	$193.55

Orange and Osceola: who else serves

EIA's service-territory records place OUC in Orange County and Osceola County⁷, covering Orlando and, in Osceola County, St. Cloud, for which OUC lists separate prices. Neither county is OUC's alone. FPL and Duke Energy Florida report customers in both; the City of Winter Park runs its own utility in Orange County; Kissimmee Utility Authority and Peace River Electric Cooperative serve parts of Osceola. Florida has no retail choice (0.0%¹ of residential customers bought from a supplier in 2025), so the address decides the utility, and EIA publishes no city or ZIP-code prices. OUC's service-area map is the way to check a specific home.

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Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 2 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.

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County	Other utilities reporting service
Orange County	Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy Florida, City of Winter Park, Central Florida Tourism Oversight District
Osceola County	Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy Florida, Kissimmee Utility Authority, Peace River Electric Cooperative, Central Florida Tourism Oversight District

Across Florida's 17 public power utilities, residential customers paid 13.17¢ per kWh in 2025, against 15.69¢ per kWh at the investor-owned utilities and 14.43¢ per kWh¹ at the cooperatives. The chart puts OUC beside the other utilities that report customers in its two counties.

Kissimmee Utility Authority (FL)11.70¢

Peace River Electric Cooperative (FL)12.84¢

City of Winter Park (FL)13.11¢

OUC (FL)13.22¢

Florida Power & Light (FL)14.62¢

Duke Energy Florida (FL)18.36¢

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 residential price (bundled customers)
Kissimmee Utility Authority (FL)	11.70¢
Peace River Electric Cooperative (FL)	12.84¢
City of Winter Park (FL)	13.11¢
OUC (FL)	13.22¢
Florida Power & Light (FL)	14.62¢
Duke Energy Florida (FL)	18.36¢

DemandLevel and time-of-day pricing

OUC's board sets its rates; the Florida Public Service Commission's authority over municipal utilities covers rate structure, under Florida's public utilities statute. In December 2024 the board approved a multiyear pricing plan called PeakSHIFT, which it described as revenue neutral. It has two parts:

• DemandLevel: a monthly charge in tiers based on each customer's peak demand, paired with a lower non-fuel charge per kWh. OUC says it launched in November 2026, and that most customers should see little change in their bill amount.
• Shift & Save: a time-of-day pricing plan that enrolls all customers, with an opt-out, scheduled for January 2027.

In 2025, before either part took effect, 366 residential customers were on a time-of-use plan, 0.1% of the total. Every residential meter was an advanced meter (100.0%⁹), which is what demand-based and time-of-day billing require. Both changes come after the latest EIA data: the 2025 average on this page reflects the old structure. The time-of-use guide explains how time-of-day prices change a bill.

Rooftop solar and outages

OUC customers had 11,443 net-metered rooftop solar installations in 2025, with 114.9 megawatts of capacity. At 45.0 per 1,000 residential customers, that is well above FPL (22.4) and JEA (13.8), though below Duke Energy Florida's (57.1⁹).

Outages were short. OUC customers averaged 37 minutes without power in 2025 including major events, fewer than the Florida average of 70 minutes, and 33 minutes excluding them, with 0.57 interruptions per customer. OUC reports under another method (not IEEE 1366), while FPL (47 minutes) and Duke Energy Florida (87 minutes¹⁰) use IEEE 1366, so those comparisons are approximate.

Businesses, and help with bills

OUC's 33,940 commercial customers paid an average of 10.24¢ per kWh in 2025, with an average monthly bill of $1,128.97, and across all 288,492 accounts the average was 11.43¢ per kWh¹. These are averages over many rate schedules, not a commercial tariff.

Florida received $121.6 million¹¹ from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for fiscal year 2026. The statewide picture is on electricity in Florida.