Electric South > Florida

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita

Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes

Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines

49th Resources
34th Market
22nd Infrastructure

Florida produces only small amounts of crude oil and natural gas and consumes substantially more energy than it produces.

Florida has no crude oil refineries. The state relies on petroleum products delivered by tanker and barge to marine terminals near the state's major coastal cities.

state-florida

Production trillion btu

12
Oil
19
Gas
0
Coal
0
Wind
6.66
Solar
1
Hydro
0
Biofuel
187
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-3,628
+226 Produced
3,854 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

1529
Oil
1348
Gas
483
Coal
307
Renewable
187
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

FL
$0.55
USA
$0.46

Key Policies

  • Does not have a statewide renewable energy portfolio requirement but does have some state and local incentives for certain renewable energy facilities.

  • Requires all motor gasoline to be blended with ethanol.

  • Requires a permit and compliance bond for oil and gas well drilling. Permits fees are $2,000. Bonds begin at $50,000 and increase for deeper wells.

Electricity net production, trillion btu

-210
9.39¢
FL
8.81¢
USA