Gainesville Regional Utilities Rates, Bills and Service Area

Gainesville Regional Utilities reported 93,214 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 798 kWh a month on average at 14.72 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, Gainesville Regional Utilities ranks 23 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 Gainesville Regional Utilities 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, Gainesville Regional Utilities reported an average of 37 minutes without power per customer and 0.77 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 48 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Gainesville Regional Utilities had about 90 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Florida figure across its utilities was 65 minutes. One interruption lasting 48 minutes and 0.77 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 37 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.

• Time-of-use pricing. Gainesville Regional 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 1,587 residential net-metered systems on the Gainesville Regional Utilities grid in 2025, with 14.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Gainesville Regional Utilities is a municipal utility based in Florida.

Florida has 36 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Gainesville Regional Utilities is 12th by size and serves about 0.87% of the state's homes. Gainesville Regional Utilities lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 1,587 of its residential customers use net metering, or 17.0 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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