Tampa Electric Rates, Bills, Service Area and Reliability

Tampa Electric reported 768,806 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,117 kWh a month on average at 17.32 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, Tampa Electric ranks 31 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 Tampa Electric 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.

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For 2025, Tampa Electric reported an average of 79 minutes without power per customer and 1.30 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 61 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Tampa Electric had about 49 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Florida figure across its utilities was 65 minutes. One interruption lasting 61 minutes and 1.30 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 79 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. Tampa Electric 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 32,662 residential net-metered systems on the Tampa Electric grid in 2025, with 392.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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.

Tampa Electric is an investor-owned utility based in Florida.

By residential customers, Tampa Electric ranks 3rd of the 36 utilities that report homes in Florida, with about 7.2% of the state's homes. Its price of 17.32 cents per kWh is 0.48 cents below the median of 3 other investor-owned utilities in Florida (17.80 cents). Over a year, the typical Tampa Electric bill runs about $308 above the state average, with monthly use 14 kWh higher. Tampa Electric lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 32,662 of its residential customers use net metering, or 42.5 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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