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Suwannee Valley 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 Suwannee Valley 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

26 thousand

26,174 homes

Average price

17.58 cents

Florida average 15.21

Average bill

$195.60

Per month at 1,113 kWh

Price rank

32 of 36

Lowest to highest in Florida

Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative rates and average bill

Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative reported 26,174 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,113 kWh a month on average at 17.58 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, Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative ranks 32 from the lowest price.

Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative compared with Florida and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative17.581,113$195.60
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 Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative 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)

Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Suwannee

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Reliability

For 2025, Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 212 minutes without power per customer and 3.24 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 65 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative had about 85 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Florida figure across its utilities was 65 minutes. One interruption lasting 65 minutes and 3.24 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 212 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. Suwannee Valley 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 219 residential net-metered systems on the Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 2.0 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.

Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Florida.

Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative compared with Florida

Of the 36 utilities listed for Florida, Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative is the 24th largest by homes, at roughly 0.25% of the state total. At $195.60 a month, an average Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative home pays about $333 a year more than the Florida average of $167.86, and uses 10 kWh a month more. Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 219 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.4 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.

Other Florida utilities

Utilities in Florida close in size to Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Suwannee Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative26,17417.58
Keys Energy ServicesMunicipal27,46015.07
West Florida Electric Cooperative AssociationCooperative26,63216.65
Florida Public UtilitiesInvestor-owned26,05317.80
City of LeesburgMunicipal24,89413.57
City of Lake Worth BeachMunicipal24,82112.29

See every one on the electric companies in Florida page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Suwannee Valley 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.

Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative?

Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 17.58 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,113 kWh a month and an average bill of $195.60 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Florida average was 15.21 cents.

How many customers does Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 26,174 residential customers for Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates Suwannee Valley 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 Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative?

For 2025, Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 212 minutes of outage per customer and 3.24 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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