Florida (FL) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
15.03¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.28
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Florida's gas works out at 7.77¢ per kWh against 15.03¢ for electricity.
That compares the energy you buy, not the heat you get. A furnace throws away a fifth of every therm up the flue, while a heat pump delivers two to three times the heat in a kilowatt hour — so the cheaper unit here is not automatically the cheaper way to heat a house.
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-07. Updated monthly. Florida last reported gas in 2025-12, so that figure is older than the electricity one.
How Florida compares
At 15.03¢ per kWh, Florida is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 15th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Florida household uses
Electricity a month
1,099 kWh
Bill a month
$169
Households in Florida use 28% more electricity than the national average and pay 12% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 15.03¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. Cooling explains most of it: Florida runs about 3,400 cooling degree days a year against 700 heating ones, so summer, not winter, sets the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Florida, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 10,798,346 residential accounts in Florida. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Florida sees around 5 freezing nights a year. Whether a heat pump beats a furnace here depends on the gap between those two prices above — not on the equipment.
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