Lee County Electric Coop, Inc electricity rates

It serves 231,142 residential customers in Florida. Its 13.54¢ per kilowatt-hour sits 10.7% below the Florida average of 15.17¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,177 kilowatt-hours a month against a national average of 871. Long cooling seasons, large detached homes and electric resistance heating are the usual causes, and together they matter more to the bill than the rate does.

Owned by the customers it serves, with directors elected by members. Co-ops are frequently outside state rate regulation. 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 Lee County Electric Coop, Inc customer went 1,711 minutes without electricity across 2.39 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.

9,402 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 83.11 megawatts. That works out to 40.7 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption here is exceptionally high. That usually means some combination of a high retail rate worth displacing, strong sunshine and favourable export rules, and it tends to bring its own regulatory argument about who covers the fixed cost of the network. What exports are actually worth.