Who Provides Utilities in Florida?

Florida has no electricity plan-shopping — the utility that holds your territory is your utility — but which utility that is changes fast: FPL covers huge stretches of the state, while Jacksonville, Orlando, Tallahassee, Gainesville and Lakeland run their own city-owned systems, and Tampa and St. Petersburg belong to other investor-owned territories entirely. Water is city-run nearly everywhere, and plenty of Florida homes skip natural gas altogether. Your address settles all of it.

Free lookup · electric, water, sewer & gas for any Florida address

The Florida electric map — and why it's blurry

Where each electric provider led our address-level sampling. Hover a city for its provider; click through for the full guide. Tap a legend entry to trace one provider across the state.

FPL 8 City-run & local utilities 7
Each dot is a Florida city we sampled, shaded by the electric provider that led our results there. The colors bleed on purpose: real utility territories don't follow clean lines, and two homes on the same street can land on different sides of one. Your address is the only reliable answerlook yours up.

The most common providers across 15 Florida cities

From our address-level sampling of 15 Florida cities (2026-07-20). "Most common in" counts the cities where that provider was the leading answer.

UtilityProviderMost common in
⚡ Electricity FPL Miami, Hialeah, Port St. Lucie, Cape Coral, Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Hollywood, Palm Bay
JEA Jacksonville
TECO Energy Tampa
💧 Water JEA Jacksonville
Mdwasa - Main System Miami
City of Tampa Water Department Tampa

Florida's quiet surprise: city-owned power is everywhere

Newcomers assume Florida means FPL, and often it does — but an outsized share of the state's biggest cities never joined an investor-owned territory at all. Jacksonville's JEA, Orlando's OUC, Tallahassee's city utility, Gainesville's GRU and Lakeland Electric are all municipally owned, several of them bundling electric, water and sewer into one organization. Move between two Florida cities and you may trade a three-company setup for a single city account, or the reverse.

What Florida doesn't have is retail choice: there's no plan to shop, no marketer to pick — the territory decides, full stop. And check your appliances before adding a gas account, because a large share of Florida homes run entirely on electricity. When hurricane season comes, the number that matters is your territory utility's outage line; save it the week you move in.

Florida utility providers by city

City-by-city breakdowns of who provides electricity, gas, water and sewer:

Florida utility questions, answered

Who is my electric company in Florida?

Whichever utility holds your address's territory — Florida Power & Light across much of the state, Tampa Electric and Duke Energy Florida on the west coast, and city-owned utilities in Jacksonville, Orlando, Tallahassee, Gainesville and Lakeland. There's no choosing between them; the address decides, which is why the lookup beats any list.

Can I pick my electricity provider in Florida?

No — Florida is a regulated market with exclusive territories. The plan-shopping you may know from Texas doesn't exist here. The upside is simplicity: one signup with the territory utility and you're done.

Do Florida homes have natural gas?

Many don't — Florida has one of the lowest residential gas rates in the country, with electric water heaters, ranges and dryers the default. Check the appliances before assuming you need a gas account; where homes do use gas, the local gas utility is a separate company from your electric provider.

How do I find every provider for a Florida address?

Run the address lookup on this page. It resolves your exact address against utility territory data and returns your electric, water, sewer and gas providers with contact details — including whether your city is one of Florida's all-in-one municipal utilities.

One address beats fifteen city guides

Enter your Florida address and get the exact lineup for your home — including whether one city account covers everything.

Find my providers

Provider data comes from our address-level utility lookup engine, aggregated from geographically spread sample addresses in each Florida city. Data refreshed 2026-07-20. Territories vary address by address — always confirm yours with the lookup. Read how we verify provider data.