Energy companies in Florida: the utilities, who serves your address, and the state's power industry

This report is for Floridians trying to work out which energy company serves them, for job seekers comparing the state's utilities, and for B2B sellers whose customers are utilities, power plant operators and the solar fleet.

Why you can't choose your electric company in Florida

Florida has no retail electricity market. Each address is served by one utility, set by geography rather than by shopping:

• Territory is regulated. Florida Statutes section 366.04 gives the Public Service Commission power to approve territorial agreements between co-ops, city utilities and other electric utilities, to resolve territorial disputes, and to prescribe a rate structure for all electric utilities. It also charges the commission with avoiding "uneconomic duplication" of generation, transmission and distribution facilities.
• Investor-owned utilities hold franchises. NextEra's 2025 10-K says Florida Power & Light serves retail customers mainly under franchise agreements with cities and counties, typically 30 years long, during which the city or county agrees not to form its own utility. FPL held 226 of them at the end of 2025.

If you're moving, find out which utility serves the address. There's no competitor to switch to if you dislike the rates: FPL's base rates through 2029, for example, come from a settlement the commission approved in January 2026, according to NextEra's 10-K.

Who serves Florida

EIA's 2025 utility survey (Form EIA-861) counts the utilities that sold electricity to Florida customers:

The trade groups count a little differently. The Florida Municipal Electric Association says Florida has 33 municipal electric utilities serving 1.6 million customers, and Florida's Electric Cooperatives lists 18 member co-ops (16 that serve homes and businesses, plus two generation and transmission co-ops, PowerSouth and Seminole) serving about 2.7 million Floridians in 57 of the state's 67 counties.

Tampa Electric's 10-K describes it as an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Emera Inc., serving about 866,000 customers in a 2,000-square-mile area of West Central Florida. Florida Public Utilities, the fourth investor-owned utility, had 30,598 accounts.

Florida's energy industry in Census data

County Business Patterns 2023 counts establishments in electric power generation, transmission and distribution (NAICS 2211), oil and gas extraction (211) and pipeline transportation (486) in Florida:

The employee total exists but the Census Bureau flagged it as high-noise (its confidentiality noise moved the value by 5% or more), so we don't report it. The flag comes from pipelines:

Average pay is payroll divided by employees, our calculation. Florida is a power state, not a production state: EIA's profile puts 2025 crude output at 800,000 barrels, under 0.1% of the US total, and Florida has no refineries. As with all CBP data, the count is of establishments with paid employees rather than companies, and it excludes the self-employed and head offices, which are filed under management of companies.

How Florida makes its power

EIA's state profile (updated April 16, 2026) says Florida is the second-largest electricity producer after Texas, with natural gas fueling over seven-tenths of 2025 generation, nuclear second from two plants on the Atlantic coast, and solar 11%. Homes use more than half the state's electricity, the largest residential share of any state.

EIA's 2025 generator survey (Form EIA-860, final data released September 10, 2026) lists 331 plants with 79,936 MW of capacity, run by 97 operators: 69.2% natural gas, 15.4% solar, 4.9% nuclear and 4.6% coal. FPL operates 39,924 MW of it.

Public energy companies headquartered in Florida

The data file lists 9 SEC-registered listed companies in these industries with a Florida address, three of them waste firms in the utility code range. Two matter for scale, both in Juno Beach:

Tampa Electric also files a 10-K, for its debt, and reports 2,601 employees, substantially all in Florida. Duke Energy Florida reports inside Duke Energy's combined 10-K. For job seekers, the city utilities and co-ops are the next tier of employers, and the municipal association's website runs a career center for its members.

Selling to Florida utilities and plant operators

Illustrative example. The seller and its rates are invented; plant counts are from EIA-860.

Sawgrass Aerial (sawgrass.example) inspects solar plants by drone. EIA-860 lists 213 solar plants in Florida with 12,301 MW, run by 41 operators. FPL runs 110 of them and buys through procurement, so Sawgrass starts with the other 103 plants and 40 operators: Tampa Electric with 28, Duke Energy Florida with 27, and independent owners with the rest. An asset manager and an O&M manager at each operator gives about 80 contacts; at a 6% reply rate that's 5 conversations, and a single fleet contract would justify the year. Bebop researches each operator in a list like this and drafts the first email; the guide to finding decision makers covers who to look for.

Subject: Thermal scans for [plant name]

Hi [first name],

EIA lists [plant name] in [county] at [capacity] MW, online since [year].

Florida's heat and storms are hard on modules and combiners, and a hot spot found by drone costs less than one found by a failed string. We fly and report a [capacity] MW site in [number] days.

Would it help to see a sample report from a plant your size?

[Your name]

Next step: compare Florida's utilities with the rest of the country in the list of the largest utility companies.