Florida Energy Facts

Quick Facts

Geologists believe there may be large oil and natural gas deposits in the federal Outer Continental Shelf off of Florida’s western coast.
Florida was second only to Texas in 2014 in net electricity generation from natural gas, which accounted for 61% of Florida’s net generation; coal accounted for almost 23%, the state’s nuclear power plants accounted for 12%, and other resources, including renewable energy, supplied the remaining electricity generation.
Renewable energy accounted for 2.3% of Florida’s total net electricity generation in 2014, and the state ranked 10th in the nation in net generation from utility-scale solar energy.
In part because of high air conditioning use during the hot summer months and the widespread use of electricity for home heating during the winter months, Florida’s retail electricity sales to the residential sector were second in the nation after Texas in 2014.
A Florida facility using a gas fermentation process to produce an estimated 8 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol from citrus fruit, vegetable, and yard wastes began commercial-scale production in 2013.
Electricity accounts for 90% of the site energy consumed by Florida households, and the annual electricity expenditures of $1,900 are 40% higher than the U.S. average, according to EIA’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey.

Florida Public Service Commission Regulated Companies can be found on the Florida Public Service Commission website.

Investor owned utilities and non-investor owned utilities

Investor owned utilities
Utility	Hdqtrs.	Top Executive	Florida Service Area	Power Sources	Total Florida Customers	1,500 KwH Residential Charge
Florida Power & Light	Juno Beach	Eric Silagy	Eastern/ South Florida	natural gas: 66.1%; nuclear: 19.1%; other: 9.1%; coal: 5%; oil: 0.7%	4,600,000	$152.87
Duke Energy¹	Charlotte, N.C.	James E. Rogers	Big Bend/ Central Florida/ Tampa Bay	coal: 40.4%; natural gas/oil: 28.1%; other: 18.5%; nuclear: 13%	1,700,000	$179.44
Tampa Electric	Tampa	Gordon L. Gillette	Hillsborough County	coal: 51%; natural gas: 49%	687,000	$158.75
Gulf Power²	Pensacola	Stan Connally	Northwest Florida	coal: 66.9%; natural gas: 59.5%; other: -26.4%	428,150	$166.37
Note: “Other” includes non-utility generated power, out-of-state generators and alternative energy sources. 1 Formerly Progress Energy; merger completed July 2012 2 Gulf Power generated more energy than its Florida customers consumed and sold the excess to its parent, Southern Co. Source: Florida Public Service Commission; respective utilities

Non-Investor owned utilities
Utility	Hdqtrs.	Top Executive	Service Area	Florida Customers	1,500 KwH Residential Charge
Florida Keys Electric Cooperative	Tavernier	Scott Newberry	Monroe County	31,200	$168.87
Fort Pierce Utilities Authority	Fort Pierce	William G. Thiess	Fort Pierce	27,700	$186.66
Gainesville Regional Utilities	Gainesville	Robert Hunzinger	Gainesville	93,000	$187.17
Homestead Energy Services	Homestead	Barbara Quinones	Homestead	22,400	$175.73
JEA	Jacksonville	Paul McElroy	Northeast Florida	420,000	$171.19
Keys Energy Services	Key West	Lynne E. Tejeda	Lower Keys	28,000	$185.88
Kissimmee Utility Authority	Kissimmee	James C. Welsh	Osceola County	64,000	$161.31
Lakeland Electric	Lakeland	Joel Ivy	Lakeland	122,000	$115.51
Lake Worth Utilities	Lake Worth	Clayton Lindstrom	Lake Worth	24,800	$173.15
New Smyrna Beach Utilities	New Smyrna Beach	William R. Mitchum	New Smyrna Beach	25,500	$157.77
Ocala Utility Services	Ocala	David Anderson	Ocala	47,900	$173.30
Orlando Utilities Commission	Orlando	Kenneth P. Ksionek	Orlando	250,000	$165.15
Reedy Creek Improvement District	Lake Buena Vista	Bill Warren	Walt Disney World	1,300	$177.74
City of Tallahassee Electric Utility	Tallahassee	Rob McGarrah	Big Bend	115,200	$169.86
City of Vero Beach Electric Utility	Vero Beach	Tom Richards	Vero Beach	33,600	$177.93
Note: Local taxes, franchise fees and gross receipts taxes not embedded in rates are excluded. Source: Florida Public Service Commission, respective utilities