Hillsborough County, FL: 2 Electric Providers (2023)

Residents who call Tampa home pay an average residential electricity rate of 12.91 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 1.49% below the average Florida rate of 13.10 cents. Electricity generation plants in the city have attained a 2.28% rise the use of renewable fuels versus non-renewable fuels. There has been a 14.99% increase in the amount of electricity produced from solar energy over the last year, which is an increase of 578 megawatt hours a year.

Tampa has 3 electricity producing plants within its borders. This is the 4th most plants in a single city within the state. About 53.22% of electricity in Tampa comes from production using Non-biogenic Municipal Solid Waste. Biogenic Municipal Solid Waste and Solar make up 43.54% and 3.23% of production, respectively. Tracking emissions on a per capita basis gives us a glimpse of the emissions efficiency of a city. Tampa averages 5,157.04 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person due to electricity use. With total emissions of 1,985,248,171.16 kilograms, the city ranks 3rd worst in the state for total emissions from electricity use.

Residents who call Brandon CDP home pay an average residential electricity rate of 12.91 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 1.49% below the average Florida rate of 13.10 cents. The state average monthly residential power bill is $146.04, while the Brandon CDP average is 2.99% higher at $150.41 per month. This is the 732nd lowest average monthly bill amount for a city in the state. The city has had a 0.43% drop in non-renewable fuel type usage in their electric production plants.

Coming in at as the 10th worst ranked city out of 960 cities in Florida, Brandon CDP releases 919,230,248.63 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption each year. More importantly, the city averages 8,019.39 kilograms of CO2 emissions per citizen, which is a better measurement of the city's emission levels. Roughly 55.00% of Brandon CDP's electricity is generated using Non-biogenic Municipal Solid Waste. Brandon CDP has one power producing plant within its borders.

Residents who call Riverview CDP home pay an average residential electricity rate of 12.91 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 1.49% below the average Florida rate of 13.10 cents. Tampa Electric has an estimated 22,234 residential customers, more than all other suppliers in the city. The average monthly residential electric bill for a customer in the city is $150.41 per month.

Coming in at as the 26th worst ranked city out of 960 cities in Florida, Riverview CDP releases 494,871,921.66 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption each year. More telling of the city's pollution reality is the per capita CO2 emission amount. That amount stands at 4,607.92 kilograms of CO2 emissions, which results in them being the 53rd ranked city in the state for CO2 emissions released per capita. The city has zero power plants currently operating within the city.