SECO Energy rates and bills

What SECO members paid per kWh in 2025

SECO Energy, legally Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., is an electric cooperative: a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves. In 2025 it sold electricity to 240,241 residential accounts, and they paid an average of 14.98¢ per kWh¹. That is average revenue per kWh (what members paid in total divided by what they used), so it folds in the monthly customer charge and any power-cost or other adjustments, and leaves out most taxes. It is not the energy charge printed in SECO's rate schedule, and a home that uses little electricity pays more per kWh than the average because the fixed charge is spread over fewer kWh.

Against other utilities, the 2025 figure sits in the middle:

• In Florida: 12th highest of the 36 utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, 1.5% below the Florida average (15.21¢ per kWh², all providers).
• Among Florida cooperatives: above their combined average of 14.43¢ per kWh.
• Nationally: tied for 87th lowest of 177 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, and 6.2% above the national average for electric cooperatives¹.

SECO is not in EIA's monthly utility sample (form EIA-861M), so EIA's only figures for its average prices come from the annual EIA-861 report. The 2025 figures are the latest; the 2025-to-2026 change will not be known until EIA publishes 2026 annual data in August 2027. For the state as a whole, monthly data run to August 2026: Florida's residential average that month was 14.99¢ per kWh (preliminary), −2.2%³ against the same month a year earlier.

The 2025 increase, set by the co-op's board

Between 2024 and 2025, SECO's residential average went from 13.09¢ per kWh⁴ to 14.98¢ per kWh, a rise of 14.4%¹. SECO Energy's rate adjustment notice says its Board of Trustees approved a system-wide increase on March 31, 2025, effective May 1, 2025, pending approval by the Florida Public Service Commission, and attributes it to membership growth and rising operating costs. The cooperative's percentage is for all member classes combined; EIA's figure covers residential members only and the whole calendar year, including four months before the new rates, so the two numbers measure different things.

In 2024, SECO and Clay Electric Cooperative had the same residential average, 13.09¢ per kWh⁴. A year later Clay's had risen 7.1%, to 14.02¢ per kWh, while SECO's rose 14.4%. The other two large cooperatives also rose by less: Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative, which shares four of SECO's counties, by 10.9% to 13.70¢ per kWh, and LCEC by 4.9% to 14.20¢ per kWh. Among the investor-owned utilities, Duke Energy Florida, which reports customers in all seven SECO counties, rose 10.4% to 18.36¢ per kWh, and Tampa Electric 18.1%¹. The Florida average rose 7.6%².

Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (FL)13.70¢

Clay Electric Cooperative (FL)14.02¢

LCEC (FL)14.20¢

SECO Energy (FL)14.98¢

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)
Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (FL)	13.70¢
Clay Electric Cooperative (FL)	14.02¢
LCEC (FL)	14.20¢
SECO Energy (FL)	14.98¢
Duke Energy Florida (FL)	18.36¢

Highest price of the four large co-ops, smallest bill

A higher price per kWh did not make SECO's bill the largest. Its homes used 1,010 kWh a month on average in 2025, against 1,248 kWh at Withlacoochee River, 1,220 kWh at Clay Electric, 1,176 kWh at LCEC and 1,103 kWh⁵ across Florida. The average SECO bill was $151.31; Withlacoochee River's was $170.89, Clay's $171.01 and LCEC's $166.98. Duke Energy Florida's homes used about as much as SECO's, 1,009 kWh, and at a higher price averaged $185.26¹.

SECO Energy (FL)$151.31

LCEC (FL)$166.98

Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (FL)$170.89

Clay Electric Cooperative (FL)$171.01

Duke Energy Florida (FL)$185.26

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
SECO Energy (FL)	$151.31
LCEC (FL)	$166.98
Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (FL)	$170.89
Clay Electric Cooperative (FL)	$171.01
Duke Energy Florida (FL)	$185.26

The year-on-year change in the bill was close to the change in price, because use barely moved: from 1,023 kWh a month in 2024 to 1,010 kWh. The average bill changed by +13.1%, from $133.83⁴ to $151.31¹, against +7.5%⁵ for Florida as a whole. These are annual averages; a summer bill is larger, as Florida's statewide monthly data show: in August 2026 the average Florida home used 1,449 kWh and was billed $217.28³ (preliminary).

North-central Florida, alongside Duke and two other co-ops

EIA's service-territory records place SECO Energy in 7 counties of north-central Florida: Citrus County, Hernando County, Lake County, Levy County, Marion County, Pasco County and Sumter County. In every one of them at least one other distribution utility also reports customers (7 of 7⁶); Duke Energy Florida is present in all, Withlacoochee River in Citrus, Hernando, Pasco and Sumter, and Clay Electric in Lake, Levy and Marion. A county, city or ZIP code therefore does not tell you which utility serves a home, and EIA publishes no city prices; SECO's own service-area map decides by address. Florida has no retail choice (0.0%¹ of residential customers bought from a competitive supplier in 2025), so the utility on the address is the supplier.

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Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 7 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
Citrus County	Duke Energy Florida, Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative
Hernando County	Duke Energy Florida, Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative
Lake County	Duke Energy Florida, Clay Electric Cooperative, City of Leesburg, City of Mount Dora
Levy County	Duke Energy Florida, Clay Electric Cooperative, Central Florida Electric Cooperative, City of Williston
Marion County	Duke Energy Florida, Clay Electric Cooperative, City of Ocala, Central Florida Electric Cooperative
Pasco County	Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Electric, Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative
Sumter County	Duke Energy Florida, Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative, City of Leesburg, City of Bushnell

Meters, rooftop solar and outages

Advanced meters covered 99.8% of SECO's residential meters in 2025, against 6.8%⁸ at Withlacoochee River.

Rooftop solar is more common on SECO's lines than on FPL's: 6,842 net-metered residential installations with 39.6 megawatts of capacity, 28.5 per 1,000 residential customers. Withlacoochee River had 24.3 per 1,000, Clay Electric 18.9, LCEC 43.9 and FPL 22.4⁸.

SECO's members averaged 69 minutes without power in 2025, fewer than the Florida average of 70 minutes, with 0.99 interruptions per customer. The cooperative measures outages by another method (not IEEE 1366), and its figure is the same with or without major event days (69 minutes), so it is not directly comparable with neighbours that use IEEE 1366, such as Withlacoochee River (105 minutes) and Clay Electric (205 minutes⁹).

Businesses pay more per kWh than homes

SECO's 23,015 commercial accounts paid an average of 18.97¢ per kWh in 2025, more than residential members, with an average monthly bill of $218.78, against $730.65⁵ for Florida's commercial accounts as a whole. Its 1,474 industrial accounts paid 10.23¢ per kWh, and across all 264,730 accounts the average was 14.09¢ per kWh¹. For the wider picture, see electricity in Florida.