Orlando Utilities Comm electricity rates

It serves 248,683 residential customers in Florida. At 15.24¢ 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.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 984 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever the rate does.

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 Orlando Utilities Comm customer went 55 minutes without electricity across 0.79 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is markedly better than typical. Short outage durations usually mean an underground or heavily automated network, and they are expensive to achieve, which is part of why reliable systems often carry higher delivery charges.

Orlando Utilities Comm offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 403 households were enrolled, about 0.2% 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.

10,545 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 105.68 megawatts. That works out to 42.4 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.