How do I set up power, water and internet when I move to Florida?

Electricity comes from one of four investor-owned companies (Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy Florida, Tampa Electric and Florida Public Utilities), from a city-owned utility or from a rural electric cooperative; the Florida Public Service Commission's April 2023 count was 35 city utilities and 18 cooperatives. The commission sets the four companies' rates. It does not set a city utility's or a cooperative's rates: for those you go to the city's utility office or the cooperative's board of directors. Water and sewer come from a city or county utility, which the commission does not regulate, or in 38 counties possibly from a private water company, whose rates it does set. The commission does not regulate internet, cable, satellite or cell phone service. To see which internet companies serve an address, and the speeds they offer, type the address into the FCC's National Broadband Map. The commission takes questions about the utilities it regulates at 1-800-342-3552.

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