Kilowatt Atlas

Electric cooperative

Central Florida Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Central Florida Electric Cooperative, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

33 thousand

32,972 homes

Average price

15.23 cents

Florida average 15.21

Average bill

$159.56

Per month at 1,048 kWh

Price rank

27 of 36

Lowest to highest in Florida

Central Florida Electric Cooperative rates and average bill

Central Florida Electric Cooperative reported 32,972 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,048 kWh a month on average at 15.23 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 36 Florida utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Central Florida Electric Cooperative ranks 27 from the lowest price.

Central Florida Electric Cooperative compared with Florida and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Central Florida Electric Cooperative15.231,048$159.56
Florida (all utilities)15.211,103$167.86
United States17.23874$150.68

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Central Florida Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Florida. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Florida (6 counties)

Alachua, Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Marion

Not sure who serves your address? Use find my electric company.

Reliability

For 2025, Central Florida Electric Cooperative reported an average of 134 minutes without power per customer and 1.94 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 69 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Central Florida Electric Cooperative sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Florida figure across its utilities was 65 minutes. One interruption lasting 69 minutes and 1.94 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 134 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Central Florida Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 2 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
  • Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 223 residential net-metered systems on the Central Florida Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 2.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Florida Public Service Commission.

Central Florida Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Florida.

Central Florida Electric Cooperative compared with Florida

Florida has 36 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Central Florida Electric Cooperative is 18th by size and serves about 0.31% of the state's homes. Among 14 other cooperatives in Florida, the median price is 14.93 cents per kWh, so Central Florida Electric Cooperative at 15.23 cents is 0.30 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical Central Florida Electric Cooperative bill runs about $100 below the state average, with monthly use 56 kWh lower. Central Florida Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 223 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.8 per 1,000 homes, against 30.3 for Florida as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Florida with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

Other Florida utilities

Utilities in Florida close in size to Central Florida Electric Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Central Florida Electric CooperativeCooperative32,97215.23
City of OcalaMunicipal48,53811.68
Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership CorporationCooperative39,72914.20
Beaches Energy ServicesMunicipal30,73811.97
Florida Keys Electric Cooperative AssociationCooperative29,09813.91
City of New Smyrna BeachMunicipal28,35510.96

See every one on the electric companies in Florida page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Central Florida Electric Cooperative and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

Central Florida Electric Cooperative questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Central Florida Electric Cooperative?

Central Florida Electric Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 15.23 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,048 kWh a month and an average bill of $159.56 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Florida average was 15.21 cents.

How many customers does Central Florida Electric Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 32,972 residential customers for Central Florida Electric Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates Central Florida Electric Cooperative?

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return. See the regulator for Florida on the Florida state page.

How reliable is Central Florida Electric Cooperative?

For 2025, Central Florida Electric Cooperative reported an average of 134 minutes of outage per customer and 1.94 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

Related pages