Florida Electricity Rates per kWh: FPL, Duke, TECO and Why Fuel Moves Bills

Duke Energy Florida’s 1,000 kWh bill rose $6.69 between August and October, enough to pass Tampa Electric. Fuel did it. Here is every line on a Florida bill at each company, the two storm charges people mix up, and why the kWh above 1,000 cost more on FPL.

What 1,000 kWh costs at each company this quarter

Florida’s regulator publishes something few states do: a line-by-line cost of 1,000 kWh at every investor-owned utility. Here is the sheet for October to December 2026.

FPL’s former Gulf Power area in the northwest pays $141.36, the extra being a transition rider. Florida Public Utilities, a small company, comes in at $165.17 with base rates of only $53.07 and fuel of $88.20, because it buys its power rather than generating it.

The change to notice is Duke. In August its total was $150.40, below Tampa Electric. From 1 October its fuel line rose $6.62, from $34.65 to $41.27, and the total reached $157.09. Duke’s Base rate also moves by season: the sheet shows $91.74 on June to November bills and $102.48 from December to February, so a January bill will carry a higher base than this table shows.

Two storm lines that are easy to confuse

Look at those two rows again. Storm restoration pays back the repair bill after a hurricane, and it is $0.00 at every utility today. Storm protection pays for hardening work ahead of storms, such as stronger poles and buried lines, and it is a standing $7 to $10 at the big three and $16.56 at Florida Public Utilities.

Restoration comes and goes. After Hurricanes Ian and Nicole in 2022, the Commission approved recovery from April 2023 alongside high gas costs, which FPL put at about 10% on a typical 1,000 kWh bill. That is why 2023 was so expensive and why the average eased in 2024. A zero today says nothing about next season: a major storm can put the line back on bills within months.

Fuel moves the other way too. In May 2020, with gas cheap, FPL returned a year of fuel savings in a single month, and the typical bill fell by nearly 25% for May alone. You can see the dip and rebound in the chart below.

Why the kWh above 1,000 cost 2¢ more on FPL

FPL’s published rates charge more once a home passes 1,000 kWh in a month: the energy charge rises from 7.865¢ to 8.865¢ and fuel from 2.893¢ to 3.893¢. Add the small per-kWh clauses and the $10.52 base charge, and this is what a month costs before taxes and fees.

The smallest homes pay the highest average, because the base charge is spread thinly. Then the price falls to 1,000 kWh and starts climbing again. We ran the average Florida home’s last 12 months of use through these rates. It passed 1,000 kWh in six of them, with 1,640 kWh above the line. That costs about $33 extra over a year, on a total near $1,770 before taxes, so the tier is real but small. Pre-cooling and a raised thermostat save more through the kWh themselves than through the tier.

Pricing your own bill

Add up the per-kWh lines on one bill and enter that, with the customer charge below. In a hot month on FPL, the simplest honest figure is the total divided by the kWh used. The utility menu instead loads that company’s 2025 average.

City utilities start cheaper and can end dearer

The Florida Municipal Electric Association compares every utility each month, at two very different homes. July’s figures are a useful test of whether a good 1,000 kWh price holds up in a large house.

Its municipal average was $136.08 at 1,000 kWh against $158.45 for investor-owned companies. The ranking shifts with use, though. Gainesville and Duke are level at 1,000 kWh, but Gainesville is $23 dearer at 2,500. The franchise fee varies by town too, so an FPL home’s real figure may be lower or higher. Treat the table as a guide to how each rate behaves, and note that this is a trade body for the city utilities. We left Tampa Electric out because July predates its current sheet.

FPL, Duke, TECO and everyone else

Your address decides your seller. Over 2025, homes on FPL paid 14.62¢ per kWh all in, against 18.36¢ on Duke Energy Florida and 17.32¢ on Tampa Electric. Lakeland Electric came in at 11.73¢ and Kissimmee Utility Authority at 11.70¢.

The Public Service Commission sets rates for the investor-owned companies. City utilities and the electric co-ops set their own through their boards, and the Commission looks only at how those rates are structured. In November 2025 it approved FPL’s four-year agreement for 2026 to 2029, which lifted a typical 1,000 kWh bill about $2.50 in 2026.

EIA-861 for 2025: each utility’s revenue from homes divided by the kWh they used, so monthly charges are spread into the price.

Six months of air conditioning

Florida’s peak is not unusually high. It is long. The average home used 1,477 kWh in July and passed 1,000 kWh in six months of the year, and the cheapest bills, about $133 in December, are still substantial. Yearly use ranks 7th of 51, which is why the typical bill ranks 11th despite a below-average price.

A small rise over fifteen years

At 15.41¢ over the last 12 months, Florida sits 35% above the 11.44¢ of 2010, one of the smallest rises of any state. For twelve years it barely left the 11¢ to 12¢ range, then gas prices in 2022 came straight through the fuel clause. It has stayed below the US average every year since 2010.

Close to Georgia and the Carolinas

Georgia, the Carolinas and West Virginia pay within about a cent of Florida. Maryland, Delaware and DC, up the coast, pay more.

Across the border: Georgia 15.17¢, Alabama 16.44¢.

All 50 states and DC on one page, with a map.

What the tier test leaves out

Our FPL figures match the trade body’s July totals for 1,000 and 2,500 kWh before franchise fees, to within 2¢. The yearly test uses the statewide average home on FPL’s rates, not a real FPL customer, and a house with hotter summers would hit the upper price more often. The “other clauses” row in our first table combines conservation, environmental, capacity and each company’s own rider.

Large moves in the series include February 2010, up about 23%; May and June 2020, down about 16% then up about 17%, the FPL refund above with a bill cut at Duke; and January 2022, up about 11%. These are EIA’s figures as published.

Figures to August 2026 (EIA marks recent months preliminary), utility figures for 2025, refreshed 3 November 2026. How every number in this series is made and checked.

• Florida, every month since 2010 (CSV): price per kWh, kWh and bill per home, and the US price.
• Every state, DC and the US (CSV)
• Everything above with the utility and supplier figures (JSON)

EIA data is in the public domain: credit the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A link back is welcome.

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Version history

• 2.0 (6 November 2026): rebuilt from the Public Service Commission sheets for 1 August and 1 October 2026: 1,000 kWh line by line, the storm lines, a test of FPL’s upper price tier and city utilities at two usage levels.
• 1.0.1 (November 2026): wording and page heading tidied; no figures changed.
• 1.0 (November 2026): first published.