Electric Rates in Fort Pierce

On the FPUA residential rate sheet effective March 1, 2026, a Fort Pierce home pays a $7.45 monthly customer charge, $0.11512 per kWh for the first 750 kWh, $0.12804 per kWh above that, and a Power Cost Adjustment of $0.00400 per kWh.

The figures come from the FPUA Residential Rates sheet effective 03/01/2026, which notes that owners pay the monthly customer charge to keep service connected to a vacant property. The rates themselves come from Rate Schedule RS of the electric tariff adopted with Resolution UA 2026-02, which makes the customer charge the monthly minimum charge (FPUA electric tariff, Rate Schedule RS).

Schedule RS covers service used only for domestic purposes in individually metered single-family homes, duplexes, apartments and condominiums, and farms occupied as the customer's residence. It does not cover a dwelling used for business or a licensed rooming house on a single meter, or a separately metered barn or workshop that is not used for business, and three phase service is provided at FPUA's option when motors of 5.0 horsepower or larger are connected. Under the tiered energy charge, every kWh a Fort Pierce home uses above the first 750 in a month is billed at the higher block rate.

Fort Pierce commercial electric rates depend on demand: accounts at 20 kW or less pay a customer charge and an energy charge, while accounts at 21 kW or more add a demand charge per kW, under the FPUA commercial rate sheet effective 03/01/2026.

Every commercial class also carries the $0.00400 PCA on the same FPUA commercial electric rate sheet, and owners pay the customer charge regardless of vacancy, occupancy or use. The sheet's GSLD class applies to a customer contracting for not less than 500 kW with a monthly load factor of not less than 70 percent, and the sheet states a GSLD floor of no less than $6,936.27 for the customer charge plus demand charge.

The tariff adds rules that the rate sheet compresses. Under Rate Schedule GSD, once a Fort Pierce account reaches 21 kW it stays on the demand rate for at least twelve months, billing demand is the highest fifteen-minute demand in the period but never less than 21 kW, and service metered at 13.2 kV and higher by a customer who owns its own transformation gets a $0.35 per kW discount on demand charges (FPUA electric tariff, Exhibit A to UA 2026-02). Demand customers above 40 kW with a load factor averaging 65 percent or more in six of the previous twelve months can earn a high load factor conservation credit of $0.50 to $2.00 per kW, depending on the month's load factor.

The Power Cost Adjustment is a per-kWh charge or credit added to every FPUA retail electric bill that passes the authority's purchased power cost, above a base power cost of 7.9522 cents per kWh, through to Fort Pierce customers.

The PCA clause in the tariff applies to all FPUA retail rate schedules and sets the factor as estimated purchased power costs plus a true-up for earlier over-recovery or under-recovery, rounded to the nearest one-thousandth of a cent; all costs of power purchased from the Florida Municipal Power Agency are included, and the FPUA Board may modify the PCA if significant circumstances arise (FPUA PCA clause, Sheets 18.0 and 18.1). The annual price index increase in UA 2026-02 does not apply to the base power cost.

The FPUA FY 2026 Annual Budget describes the PCA and the natural gas Purchased Gas Adjustment as a pass through of FPUA's cost of power and gas purchased for resale, reviewed monthly, with Rate Stabilization Fund targets of $10 million for electric and $1 million for natural gas (FPUA FY 2026 Annual Budget). The budget also states a goal of updating the PCA on the utility billing annually instead of monthly, and ties power cost to natural gas prices stabilized through FMPA's Gas Stability Program.

FPUA electric customers inside the City of Fort Pierce pay a 10 percent utility tax, customers outside the city pay a 5 percent County Franchise Fee and a 10 percent surcharge, and every residential account pays a 2.56 percent State Gross Receipts Tax Recovery.

The rows above are transcribed from the FPUA residential rate sheet and the FPUA commercial rate sheet. The commercial sheet lists the 2.56 percent recovery only in its outside-city and St. Lucie Village lines, while the residential sheet applies it to all electric residential customers. The tariff's Tax Adjustment Clause sets the inside-city utility tax at 10 percent within the limit of section 166.231, Florida Statutes, and makes the outside-city surcharge equal to the utility tax, applied on the same base and to the same customers, citing Rule 25-9.525 of the Florida Administrative Code (FPUA Tax Adjustment Clause, Sheet 17.0).

Section 166.231 caps a municipal public service tax on electricity at 10 percent of payments received by the seller and states that the tax shall not be applied against any fuel adjustment charge, which must be separately stated on each bill (F.S. 166.231). The tariff applies taxes to the amount computed at the monthly rate as adjusted by the PCA, and neither document states how the two provisions meet on a Fort Pierce bill.

Resolution UA 2026-02, adopted February 3, 2026 and effective March 1, 2026, raised FPUA customer and usage charges 2.23 percent under the 2025 Florida Public Service Commission annual price index.

The resolution adopts revised electric tariff sheets as its Exhibit A and directs the FPUA Director of Utilities to take the administrative steps to implement them, including submission to the Public Service Commission (FPUA Resolution UA 2026-02). Its indexing section cites Resolution 2022-06, adopted by the Fort Pierce City Commission on May 16, 2022, which allows the FPUA Board to apply the index without further City Commission action; the index is set by March 31 each year from the Gross Domestic Product Implicit Price Deflator for the preceding two years, and a year in which the Board does not apply it does not carry forward.

The FPUA Rates and Resolutions page lists Electric Rates No. UA 2026-02 as the current general electric resolution, alongside Electric Rates Solar Project No. UA 2019-07 (FPUA Rates and Resolutions). The budget's table of rate changes over ten fiscal years lists the FPSC Annual Price Index and Rate Sufficiency among the reasons for Fort Pierce electric rate changes (FPUA FY 2026 Annual Budget, rate changes).

FPUA's Net Metering Service schedule lets a Fort Pierce customer with on-site renewable generation of up to 2 MW offset its own use and receive bill credits for excess energy at a rate set quarterly by the Florida Municipal Power Agency.

Rate Schedule NM sorts systems into Tier 1 at 10 kW or less, Tier 2 above 10 kW up to 100 kW, and Tier 3 above 100 kW up to 2 MW; Tier 1 pays no application fee, Tiers 2 and 3 pay $100.00, and Tier 3 also posts a $500.00 study deposit (FPUA Net Metering schedule, Exhibit A to UA 2026-02). The customer signs a Standard Interconnection Agreement and a Tri-Party Net-Metering Power Purchase Agreement with FMPA and FPUA, and pays all charges of its otherwise applicable rate schedule, including the customer charge and minimum charge, whatever it exports.

Excess energy is credited at the ARP $/kWh Renewable Generation Credit Rate, a quarterly average updated each April 1, July 1, October 1 and January 1. Unused credits roll forward for not more than twelve months, unused credits are paid out in the last billing cycle of each calendar year, and FPUA may limit acceptance once deliveries from all participating customers exceed 2.5 percent of aggregate customer peak demand on the FPUA electric system.