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Florida electricity cost: cheap power, relentless cooling, pricey everything else
Florida's electricity follows the Southern pattern — a below-average price carrying an above-average bill. Residential electricity averaged 14.14¢ per kWh in 2024, about 14% below the 16.48¢ U.S. average, with the July 2026 snapshot at 15.03¢. But the average Florida home used 1,104 kWh a month — year-round air conditioning in a humid subtropical climate — so the average monthly bill was $156.09, about 10% above the U.S. average of $142.26. The sharper Florida story sits in the other fuels: its delivered natural gas, at $25.37 per Mcf, and its residential propane, at $4.928 a gallon, are among the most expensive figures EIA publishes anywhere.
| Florida at a glance | Figure (with source period) |
|---|---|
| Average electricity price (2024) | 14.14¢ per kWh — U.S. average 16.48¢ |
| Latest monthly snapshot (July 2026, preliminary) | 15.03¢ per kWh |
| Average electricity use (2024) | 1,104 kWh per month — U.S. average 863 kWh |
| Average monthly electric bill (2024) | $156.09 — U.S. average $142.26 |
| South Atlantic division price (July 2026) | 16.12¢ per kWh (FL, GA, the Carolinas and neighbours blended) |
| Natural gas, residential delivered (2024) | $25.37 per Mcf (about $2.45 per therm) — U.S. average $14.50; second-highest in the U.S. |
| Propane (week of Oct 19, 2026) | $4.928 per gallon — the highest state price in EIA's survey; heating oil not surveyed for Florida |
Enter your own monthly kWh and price them at the Florida average — then compare a winter month's usage with a summer month's to see the cooling load at work.
Open the energy cost calculatorA cooling-dominated meter
Florida's 1,104 kWh is what a meter looks like when the cooling season never really ends. EIA's summer analysis — air conditioning at about 18% of annual household electricity use nationally, with consumption peaking in July and August — understates the Florida case, where cooling and dehumidification run across most of the calendar and where winter heating demand is too small to offset it. RECS frames the household total: South Atlantic homes used the second-least site energy of any division, 63.8 MMBtu a year, and spent $1,850 — low total energy, but an unusually large share of it arriving as electricity, because Florida homes heat (when they heat at all), cool, and run water-heating loads on the electric meter rather than on delivered fuels. That is also why the July 2026 snapshot, 15.03¢, matters less in Florida than the annual figure: Florida's bill difference from the national average is written almost entirely in the usage column, month after month, rather than in a seasonal price spike.
Electric decisions, and the expensive alternatives
At 14.14¢, home EV charging prices slightly better than the national norm — $8.48 for a 60 kWh full charge and $47.13 per 1,000 miles at the labeled 3.0 miles-per-kWh assumption, from this site's EV guide, against $9.89 and $54.93 nationally. The fuel-switching arithmetic is where Florida gets strange. Delivered gas at $25.37 per Mcf — about $2.45 per therm, and second only to Hawaii's $48.88 in EIA's table — works out to roughly $24.47 per million Btu (dividing by 1.037), against about $41.44 per million Btu for electricity before efficiency (arithmetic on EIA's 3,412 Btu per kWh). A heat pump's efficiency multiplier therefore beats Florida gas comfortably, which is the opposite of the usual mainland ranking and a direct consequence of how few Florida customers the gas network serves. Propane is starker still: at $4.928 a gallon — the survey's highest state price, 83% above the U.S. average — a 500-gallon fill costs $2,464.00 (arithmetic on the published price). EIA's Winter Fuels Outlook forecasts South households to spend $511 (gas), $1,079 (electricity) and $1,164 (propane) across November to March; in Florida those winter rows are close to a rounding error next to the cooling year.
The honest gap
Heating oil completes the picture by its absence: Florida is not among the 21 states in EIA's heating-oil survey, so no state average exists and this site publishes none. For a Florida reader the takeaway of EIA's tables is consistent — electricity is the reasonably priced fuel, used in very large quantities; everything delivered to the door is priced like a niche product, because in Florida it is one. The state-level starting point remains our Florida state guide; this page is the electricity deep-dive behind it, and our Southeast page sets Florida beside its neighbours.
Sources: EIA — Electric Sales, Revenue & Average Price 2024, Table 5A (Form EIA-861) · EIA — Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A (July 2026) · EIA — Natural Gas Annual 2024, Table 23 (Form EIA-176) · EIA — Heating Oil and Propane Update (week of October 19, 2026) · EIA — Winter Fuels Outlook, October 2026 · EIA — Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) 2020, Table CE1.1 · EIA — Today in Energy, summer residential electricity use (RECS-based). Last verified: October 2026 — energy prices move with seasons and markets; confirm the current rate on your own bill.
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