Gainesville Regional Utilities electricity rates

It serves 92,968 residential customers in Florida. At 14.87¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the Florida average of 15.17¢ closely, which is what you would expect from a utility large enough to shape that average itself.

Consumption here is below the national norm at 780 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which softens the effect of the rate on the final 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 Gainesville Regional Utilities customer went 744 minutes without electricity across 2.13 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is far worse than typical, and figures at this level almost always reflect a major storm season rather than everyday performance. A single hurricane or ice storm can dominate the annual number.

1,486 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 13.4 megawatts. That works out to 16 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.