City of Lakeland Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Lakeland reported 122,506 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,160 kWh a month on average at 11.73 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, City of Lakeland ranks 6 from the lowest price.

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.

EIA lists the counties where City of Lakeland has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Florida. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, City of Lakeland reported an average of 63 minutes without power per customer and 1.07 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 59 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Lakeland had about 64 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Florida figure across its utilities was 65 minutes. One interruption lasting 59 minutes and 1.07 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 63 minute total.

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

• Time-of-use pricing. City of Lakeland reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 2,044 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 2,130 residential net-metered systems on the City of Lakeland grid in 2025, with 22.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Lakeland is a municipal utility based in Florida.

Florida has 36 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Lakeland is 10th by size and serves about 1.1% of the state's homes. Its price of 11.73 cents per kWh is 1.38 cents below the median of 15 other municipal utilities in Florida (13.11 cents). At $136.09 a month, an average City of Lakeland home pays about $381 a year less than the Florida average of $167.86, and uses 57 kWh a month more. City of Lakeland lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 2,130 of its residential customers use net metering, or 17.4 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.

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