Sumter Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Sumter Electric Cooperative reported 240,241 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,010 kWh a month on average at 14.98 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, Sumter Electric Cooperative ranks 25 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 Sumter Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 7 counties 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, Sumter Electric Cooperative reported an average of 69 minutes without power per customer and 0.99 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 70 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Sumter Electric Cooperative had about 59 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Florida figure across its utilities was 65 minutes. One interruption lasting 70 minutes and 0.99 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 69 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. Sumter Electric Cooperative 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 6,842 residential net-metered systems on the Sumter Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 39.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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.

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Sumter Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Florida.

Of the 36 utilities listed for Florida, Sumter Electric Cooperative is the 6th largest by homes, at roughly 2.2% of the state total. Among 14 other cooperatives in Florida, the median price is 15.06 cents per kWh, so Sumter Electric Cooperative at 14.98 cents is about the same as its peers. Over a year, the typical Sumter Electric Cooperative bill runs about $199 below the state average, with monthly use 93 kWh lower. Sumter Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 6,842 of its residential customers use net metering, or 28.5 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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