State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Florida Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Florida costs 15.17¢ per kWh (+1.3% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Florida's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 15.24¢/kWh, 11.9% below the US average. The rate runs below the national average on a mix that is still only 12% renewable. Commercial, industrial and generation-mix figures follow.
- 15.17¢
- May 2026 rate
- +1.3%
- year over year
- 15.24¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -11.9%
- vs US average
- 12%
- Renewable
- 10.7M
- Customers
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15.24¢/kWh residential, 11.47¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Florida's residential average revenue per kWh is 15.24¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 11.47¢/kWh and an industrial average of 8.84¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 12% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 11.9% below the US average vs national residential average
- 12% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Florida's residential electricity runs 15.24¢/kWh - 11.9% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 56% of other states, with 12% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 10.7M reported residential customers, a benchmark for comparing states, not the tariff on any single bill. Source: EIA retail-sales API, annual frequency.
Annual rate change
What changed in the 2025 annual EIA period
- Florida's residential average rose from 14.14¢/kWh to 15.24¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +7.8%.
- Florida's commercial average rose from 10.99¢/kWh to 11.47¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.4%.
- Florida's industrial average rose from 8.50¢/kWh to 8.84¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +4.0%.
Who generates Florida's electricity
Florida has 711 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 74,277 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is West County Energy Center , a natural gas fired combined cycle station operated by Florida Power & Light Co , rated 3,777 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are Florida Power & Light Company, Progress Energy Florida and Tampa Electric Company.
Showing the 16 largest of 341 operable plants in Florida by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West County Energy Center | Florida Power & Light Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 3,777 |
| Crystal River | Duke Energy Florida, LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 3,039 |
| Turkey Point | Florida Power & Light Co | Nuclear | – | 2,935 |
| Manatee | Florida Power & Light Co | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 2,751 |
| Fort Myers | Florida Power & Light Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 2,736 |
| Sanford | Florida Power & Light Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 2,352 |
| Martin | Florida Power & Light Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 2,209 |
| Hines Energy Complex | Duke Energy Florida, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 2,100 |
| H L Culbreath Bayside Power Station | Tampa Electric Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,974 |
| St Lucie | Florida Power & Light Co | Nuclear | – | 1,968 |
| Gulf Clean Energy Center | Florida Power & Light Co | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 1,858 |
| Seminole (FL) | Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,735 |
| Okeechobee Clean Energy Center | Florida Power & Light Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,723 |
| Big Bend | Tampa Electric Co | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 1,491 |
| P L Bartow | Duke Energy Florida, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,334 |
| Northside Generating Station | JEA | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 1,322 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 140 | 39,145 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 44 | 11,923 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 34 | 6,400 |
| JEA | 4 | 2,780 |
| Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc | 2 | 2,521 |
| Orlando Utilities Comm | 3 | 1,961 |
| Oleander Holdings LLC | 1 | 816 |
| City of Lakeland - (FL) | 3 | 807 |
| City of Tallahassee - (FL) | 3 | 725 |
| Kissimmee Utility Authority | 1 | 679 |
Operable units only, from EIA's generator inventory as reported for 2026-05. Capacity is net summer rating, which is what a unit can reliably deliver in peak conditions rather than its nameplate figure. Ownership and operatorship can differ; the company shown is the one EIA records as operating the unit.
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$21.3B
Commercial Revenue
$11.5B
Residential Sales
139.9M MWh
Residential Customers
10.7M
What Florida's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Florida pay 15.24¢/kWh in 2025, across 10.7M metered households, placing the state 11.9% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 11.47¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 8.84¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 139.9M MWh on roughly $21.3B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Households carry more of the load here than the headline suggests: Florida ranks 29 of 51 residential but 22 industrial, the ordinary shape of a rate structure that treats industrial supply as the cheaper class. Natural gas does not merely lead Florida's grid, it accounts for 72.0% of everything generated in-state, leaving every other fuel a minor share (the nearest, nuclear, reaches 11.3%). It is the leading fuel in 26 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 11.7% of Florida's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Florida moved from 10.98¢/kWh in 2016 to 15.24¢/kWh in 2025, a 38.8% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Virginia, Arizona, Oregon, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Because gas sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour on a grid built around it, Florida's residential rate tracks the fuel market with a lag: a gas-price winter shows up on bills months later, and a cheap gas year works its way through the same way. A state average sitting modestly under the national one is the easiest kind to misread, because the spread between utilities inside Florida can be wider than the gap to the national figure it is being compared against.
-11.9%
Cheaper vs the US residential average
56%
of states have higher rates — Mid-range cost
12%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
10.7M
residential customers served
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Florida generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 11.7% of generation.
- Natural Gas72.0%
- Nuclear11.3%
- Solarrenewable11.1%
- Coal3.8%
- Other0.8%
- Biomassrenewable0.5%
- Petroleum0.4%
- Hydrorenewable0.1%
Residential Price History
Florida residential average revenue per kWh moved from 10.98¢/kWh in 2016 to 15.24¢/kWh in 2025 (38.8% over the window).
- Florida residential avg
- 15.24¢/kWh 38.8% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Florida residential: 2016, 11¢
- Florida residential: 2017, 11.6¢
- Florida residential: 2018, 11.5¢
- Florida residential: 2019, 11.7¢
- Florida residential: 2020, 11.3¢
- Florida residential: 2021, 11.9¢
- Florida residential: 2022, 13.9¢
- Florida residential: 2023, 15.2¢
- Florida residential: 2024, 14.1¢
- Florida residential: 2025, 15.2¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Florida full trend →
Florida Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Florida households paid 15.24¢/kWh while businesses paid 11.47¢/kWh, a 32.9% residential premium, a wider household-versus-business gap than most states. Every year EIA has published is below, so a single year can be read across all three sectors rather than assembled from three separate EIA queries.
| Year | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15.24¢/kWh | 11.47¢/kWh | 8.84¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 14.14¢/kWh | 10.99¢/kWh | 8.50¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 15.21¢/kWh | 11.95¢/kWh | 9.39¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 13.90¢/kWh | 11.19¢/kWh | 9.16¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 11.90¢/kWh | 9.51¢/kWh | 7.65¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 11.27¢/kWh | 8.85¢/kWh | 7.15¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 11.70¢/kWh | 9.27¢/kWh | 7.65¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 11.54¢/kWh | 9.19¢/kWh | 7.65¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 11.61¢/kWh | 9.35¢/kWh | 7.83¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 10.98¢/kWh | 8.90¢/kWh | 7.69¢/kWh |
Average revenue per kilowatt-hour, U.S. Energy Information Administration annual-frequency retail-sales series. Revenue per kWh is what customers in each sector actually paid on average, not an advertised tariff rate. Years with no EIA figure for a sector show —.
Where Florida's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
15.24¢/kWh Top 46% most affordable More affordable than 56% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
Each bar spans 5¢/kWh. Taller bars contain more states; the dashed marker locates this state. Hover, focus or tap a bar for its exact count and share.
Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How Florida compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Florida against the US average or a peer state.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by natural gas
These grids also report natural gas as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
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Using Florida's numbers
With renewables still a small share of generation here, the figures above describe a mix that has further to travel than most. Watch what Florida builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- Florida sits 11.9% below the national average, see exactly where it lands among all 50 states. See the rankings
- Check the multi-year trend before you judge the rate, a low price rising fast can cost more over a decade than a steady one. Florida price trend
- Compare Florida side by side with the US average and peer states using the tool above, then estimate your own bill from your monthly kWh. Cost calculator
Figures are EIA state averages by sector, computed as revenue divided by sales, so delivery and taxes are inside them but not broken out. Your actual rate depends on your utility, plan, and usage, see our disclaimer.
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Where Florida's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
Utilities serving Florida
The 41 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Florida to EIA Form 861 (2024), largest first. Entity prices below are Form 861 averages for that release, not the same survey as the 2025 retail-sales statewide average above, and not a household tariff. What an individual household pays depends on which of these serves its address.
| Utility | Ownership | Customers | Avg ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | Investor Owned | 5.2M | 13.71¢ |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | Investor Owned | 1.8M | 16.63¢ |
| Tampa Electric Co | Investor Owned | 757.3K | 14.67¢ |
| JEA | Municipal | 470.6K | 12.43¢ |
| Orlando Utilities Comm | Municipal | 248.7K | 15.24¢ |
| Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL) | Cooperative | 231.1K | 13.54¢ |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | Cooperative | 229.4K | 12.35¢ |
| Sumter Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 228.9K | 13.09¢ |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | Cooperative | 171.2K | 13.09¢ |
| City of Lakeland - (FL) | Municipal | 121.6K | 11.40¢ |
| City of Tallahassee - (FL) | Municipal | 106.9K | 13.60¢ |
| Gainesville Regional Utilities | Municipal | 93.0K | 14.87¢ |
| Kissimmee Utility Authority | Municipal | 79.3K | 13.22¢ |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 57.6K | 12.35¢ |
| Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 57.1K | 13.23¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 41 reporting utilities. The 11 serving 100.0K+ residential customers link to a full profile. Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility is available at a given address or that a customer may choose it.
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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Statewide prices use the EIA retail-sales annual series (2025). Generation mix uses a separate EIA generation series (2025). Utility rows use Form EIA-861 (2024) and are not averaged into the statewide retail-sales figure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.