City of Tallahassee electricity rates

It serves 106,946 residential customers in Florida. Its 13.60¢ per kilowatt-hour sits 10.3% below the Florida average of 15.17¢.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 927 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

Owned by the city it serves and governed by a local board rather than the state commission. No shareholder return is built into the rate. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

In 2024 the average City of Tallahassee customer went 149 minutes without electricity across 2.14 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is better than the typical American utility, though the figure includes major storm days and can move sharply from one year to the next.

City of Tallahassee offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 693 households were enrolled, about 0.6% of its residential base.

These plans are opt-in almost everywhere. They reward households that can move laundry, dishwashing, water heating or electric vehicle charging out of the late-afternoon peak, and they cost more than the standard rate for households that cannot. How to tell which group you are in.

1,285 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 11.29 megawatts. That works out to 12 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.