Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) commercial electricity rates in Florida

• Average commercial price, 202516.38¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Florida average+42%state commercial average 11.53¢
• Commercial customers11,50313th largest of 37 in Florida
• Average use5,762 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$944a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+4.0%from 15.75¢ per kWh
• Outages37 mina year per customer · US average 124

Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) is a municipal utility serving 1 county in Florida. Among the 37 Florida utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 13th largest, with about 0.9% of the state’s commercial customers.

Gainesville Regional Utilities commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Gainesville Regional Utilities billed its commercial customers an average of 15.75¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 16.38¢, so it rose 4.0% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Florida rose 21% over the same period. The highest year was 2022, at 19.07¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it was unchanged.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Gainesville Regional Utilities

In 2025 the average commercial price at Gainesville Regional Utilities was 11% above the residential figure and 31% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Gainesville Regional Utilities’ commercial rates are set

Gainesville Regional Utilities is owned by the community it serves. Its rates are set locally, by the city council or a utility board, and in most states the state commission does not set them. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. There is no competitive supply market for ordinary commercial accounts in Florida, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Gainesville Regional Utilities

EIA counts 11,503 commercial meters at Gainesville Regional Utilities in 2025, and 11,499 of them (more than 99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 4 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At Gainesville Regional Utilities, 27 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.2% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Gainesville Regional Utilities reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.

EIA records 145 commercial net-metered generating systems at Gainesville Regional Utilities in 2025, with 10.3 MW of capacity between them: about 13 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Gainesville Regional Utilities’ electric service?

Gainesville Regional Utilities customers went without power for an average of 37 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.77 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Gainesville Regional Utilities serves

EIA records Gainesville Regional Utilities serving customers in 1 Florida county: Alachua. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists Gainesville Regional Utilities as its balancing authority, the body that keeps supply and demand matched minute by minute across the area.

Other utilities in Florida

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Florida page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Florida Power & Light (10.94¢)
• Duke Energy Florida (13.03¢)
• Tampa Electric (12.61¢)
• JEA (11.43¢)
• Orlando Utilities Commission (10.24¢)
• LCEC (12.18¢)
• Clay Electric Cooperative (11.60¢)
• SECO Energy (18.97¢)
• Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (10.88¢)
• Lakeland Electric (9.78¢)
• City of Tallahassee Utilities (10.20¢)
• Kissimmee Utility Authority (11.20¢)
• Ocala Electric Utility (11.55¢)
• CHELCO (12.56¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Gainesville Regional Utilities’ tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Florida page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Gainesville Regional Utilities commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Gainesville Regional Utilities

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Gainesville Regional Utilities?

Gainesville Regional Utilities billed its commercial customers in Florida an average of 16.38¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 42% above the Florida commercial average of 11.53¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Gainesville Regional Utilities?

About $944 a month in 2025, on average use of about 5,762 kWh a month. That is Gainesville Regional Utilities’ commercial revenue divided by its 11,503 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Gainesville Regional Utilities’ commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Gainesville Regional Utilities billed commercial customers rose 4.0% between 2015 and 2025, from 15.75¢ to 16.38¢ per kWh. The Florida commercial average rose 21% over the same period.

How reliable is Gainesville Regional Utilities’ electric service?

Gainesville Regional Utilities customers averaged 37 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Gainesville Regional Utilities use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 11,499 advanced (AMI) meters among Gainesville Regional Utilities’ 11,503 commercial meters in 2025, which is more than 99%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Gainesville Regional Utilities?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Gainesville Regional Utilities’ tariff.