14.72¢
per kWh, 2025
[ Gainesville Regional Utilities / FL ]
Gainesville Regional Utilities electricity rates in Florida
CITY SETS RATES · DATA 2025
change in average rate, 2024→2025
−1.0%
vs 2024
93,214
residential customers
+13.1%
since 2020
What your bill becomes
Bill today
No change on file
Difference / month · / year
Estimated at Gainesville Regional Utilities's average effective residential rate (14.72¢/kWh, EIA, all charges included). Your tariff, fees and taxes differ.
Rate history 2015–2025
| Year | ¢/kWh | Change | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14.47¢ | — | 83,953 |
| 2016 | 13.63¢ | −5.8% | 84,358 |
| 2017 | 13.61¢ | −0.1% | 86,100 |
| 2018 | 12.77¢ | −6.2% | 86,508 |
| 2019 | 13.18¢ | +3.2% | 87,050 |
| 2020 | 13.02¢ | −1.2% | 88,391 |
| 2021 | 13.26¢ | +1.8% | 89,764 |
| 2022 | 17.69¢ | +33.4% | 89,751 |
| 2023 | 16.99¢ | −4.0% | 92,308 |
| 2024 | 14.87¢ | −12.5% | 92,968 |
| 2025 | 14.72¢ | −1.0% | 93,214 |
How this compares
15.21¢
Florida average, 2025
−3.2%
Gainesville Regional Utilities vs FL 2025 average
−14.6%
vs US 2025 average
#14
priciest in FL
Serves 1 county in Florida: Alachua. 15 ZIP codes.
What the numbers show
Since 2015, Gainesville Regional Utilities's average residential rate has gone from 14.47¢ to 14.72¢ per kWh: +1.7% over 10 years, or about +0.2% a year. It rose in 3 of the 10 years we can compare, and the biggest one-year increase was +33.4% in 2022. The largest drop was −12.5% in 2024.
For a home using 1,103 kWh a month, the Florida average, Gainesville Regional Utilities's 2025 rate works out to about $1,948 a year, $65 less than at Florida's average rate of 15.21¢. Of the 37 Florida utilities in our data with a 2025 price, it is the 14th most expensive.
Gainesville Regional Utilities served 83,953 homes in 2015 and 93,214 in 2025 (+11.0%), under 1% of Florida's residential electricity customers.
Who sets Gainesville Regional Utilities's rates
Gainesville Regional Utilities is a municipal utility owned by the local government. The city council or a local utility board sets its rates, usually after a public meeting, and the Florida Public Service Commission generally does not.
Commission contact: Florida Public Service Commission. How we calculate every figure on this page: methodology.
Questions
Is Gainesville Regional Utilities raising rates in 2026?
Gainesville Regional Utilities's rates are set by the city council or a local utility board, not through a rate case at the Florida Public Service Commission, so check its own notices for a change this year. Its average residential rate moved −1.0% from 2024 to 2025.
What does Gainesville Regional Utilities charge per kWh?
Gainesville Regional Utilities's average effective residential rate was 14.72¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA-861, revenue divided by sales, all charges included). Florida's 2025 average was 15.21¢.
How much have Gainesville Regional Utilities rates gone up in five years?
+13.1% between 2020 and 2025, against +27.6% for Florida as a whole over the latest five-year window.
How many customers does Gainesville Regional Utilities have in Florida?
93,214 residential customers in 2025, across 1 county including Alachua, according to the EIA-861 survey.
Where do these numbers come from?
Rates and customer counts are from the US Energy Information Administration's annual EIA-861 survey, which every US utility files. Nothing here is a utility bill; use it to understand the direction and size of changes.
Sources
- EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2015–2025 (released 2026-10-07)
- EIA-861M monthly state averages through Jul 2026
- NREL utility-by-ZIP lookup (2024)