Kilowatt Atlas

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Florida Public Utilities Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

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 Florida Public Utilities, 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

26 thousand

26,053 homes

Average price

17.80 cents

Florida average 15.21

Average bill

$181.49

Per month at 1,020 kWh

Price rank

33 of 36

Lowest to highest in Florida

Florida Public Utilities rates and average bill

Florida Public Utilities reported 26,053 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,020 kWh a month on average at 17.80 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, Florida Public Utilities ranks 33 from the lowest price.

Florida Public Utilities compared with Florida and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Florida Public Utilities17.801,020$181.49
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 Florida Public Utilities has distribution equipment. That covers 4 counties in Florida. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Florida (4 counties)

Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty, Nassau

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Reliability

For 2025, Florida Public Utilities reported an average of 129 minutes without power per customer and 1.61 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 80 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Florida Public Utilities sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Florida figure across its utilities was 65 minutes. One interruption lasting 80 minutes and 1.61 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 129 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Florida Public Utilities does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
  • Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 623 residential net-metered systems on the Florida Public Utilities grid in 2025, with 5.4 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Florida, that review is done by the Florida Public Service Commission.

Florida Public Utilities is an investor-owned utility based in Florida.

Florida Public Utilities compared with Florida

Florida has 36 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Florida Public Utilities is 25th by size and serves about 0.24% of the state's homes. Among 3 other investor-owned utilities in Florida, the median price is 17.32 cents per kWh, so Florida Public Utilities at 17.80 cents is 0.48 cents above its peers. At $181.49 a month, an average Florida Public Utilities home pays about $164 a year more than the Florida average of $167.86, and uses 84 kWh a month less. Florida Public Utilities lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 623 of its residential customers use net metering, or 23.9 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 Florida Public Utilities
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Florida Public UtilitiesInvestor-owned26,05317.80
West Florida Electric Cooperative AssociationCooperative26,63216.65
Suwannee Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative26,17417.58
City of LeesburgMunicipal24,89413.57
City of Lake Worth BeachMunicipal24,82112.29
Fort Pierce Utilities AuthorityMunicipal24,79013.33

See every one on the electric companies in Florida page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Florida Public Utilities 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.

Florida Public Utilities questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Florida Public Utilities?

Florida Public Utilities residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 17.80 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,020 kWh a month and an average bill of $181.49 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Florida average was 15.21 cents.

How many customers does Florida Public Utilities have?

EIA reports about 26,053 residential customers for Florida Public Utilities in 2025.

Who regulates Florida Public Utilities?

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. See the regulator for Florida on the Florida state page.

How reliable is Florida Public Utilities?

For 2025, Florida Public Utilities reported an average of 129 minutes of outage per customer and 1.61 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (other standard). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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