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EV charger installation cost in Tampa

A Level 2 install in Tampa runs $1,100–$3,500 including hardware. Whether you get a rebate on top of that depends on something no calculator asks you: which side of the Tampa Electric / Duke Energy Florida line your address falls on.

Two neighbours, two different answers

Tampa Electric has no residential EV charger rebate. Not a small one — none. It is confirmed by its absence from TECO’s own EVs for Home page. Duke Energy Florida, which serves Pinellas County and much of Pasco, does run a Charger Prep Credit plus an off-peak charging credit.

Florida · residential

Tampa Electric (TECO)

NONE

No residential EV charger rebate. Confirmed by its absence from TECO's own EVs for Home page.

ABSENCE CONFIRMED · SOURCE

VERIFIED 2026-08-27

Florida · install rebate

Duke Energy Florida

UNVERIFIED

Charger Prep Credit

A one-time credit toward the electrical infrastructure for a home charger. The announcement does not state the amount. Separately, an Off-Peak Charging Credit pays $7.50 per month.

The Charger Prep Credit amount is not stated in the announcement we read. The $7.50/month off-peak credit is stated. We show what is sourced and mark the rest.

UTILITY PROGRAM PAGE · SOURCE

VERIFIED 2026-08-27

Which utility serves your ZIP?

Tampa Bay ZIP code

UTILITY

Tampa Electric (TECO)

Hillsborough County · no residential charger rebate · permitted by City of Tampa

Service territories do not follow ZIP boundaries. A handful of streets on any boundary are served by the other side — confirm the utility name printed on your bill. North Hillsborough and central Pasco also border Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative.

What Tampa Electric offers instead: Energy Planner

TECO does run a time-of-use program, but it is not EV-branded — which is exactly why EV buyers miss it. It is called Energy Planner: free, three-tier, residential, and it explicitly supports scheduling a Level 2 charger through the online portal.

Standard residential rate	14.235¢/kWh
Low-rate period	11.044¢/kWh
Saving in the low period	3.191¢/kWh
Low rate available	27.7% of hours
Medium rate	58.9% of hours
High rate	13.4% of hours

The high tier never applies on weekends or holidays.
Free programmable thermostat, no enrollment fee.
—12-month minimum commitment. Broadband required.
✕Not eligible: net-metered solar customers.
✕Not eligible: Prime Time Plus participants.

Full Tampa Electric page →

Tampa install costs

Component	Tampa range	Note
Level 2 hardware	$300 – $900	Same as the national range.
Basic install, labor only	$800 – $2600	Excludes hardware and permit.
Install including hardware	$1,100 – $3,500	The figure most Tampa homeowners land on.
Permit	$50 – $800	See the five jurisdictions below.
Panel upgrade add-on	$800 – $3,000	Run the load calculation before accepting this.

No published state-level labor index exists for Florida, so the calculator applies the national average rather than an index it cannot source. The national anchor is $2,442 for labor and permits excluding hardware.

Tampa Bay is permitted five different ways

City of Tampa uses a Residential Electric Trade Permit via Accela Citizen Access, typically without plan review. Unincorporated Hillsborough uses an electrical trade permit via HillsGovHub. A final electrical inspection (ELE-Final) is required. Neither agency publishes a guaranteed timeline.

Jurisdiction	Add circuits	Panel upgrade	Basis
Tampa	$68 – $270	$90 – $360	ESTIMATE
Unincorporated Hillsborough County	$68 – $270	$90 – $360	ESTIMATE
Unincorporated Pinellas County	—	—	NOT CAPTURED
St. Petersburg	—	—	NOT CAPTURED
Clearwater	—	—	NOT CAPTURED

THESE ARE ESTIMATES

The permit figures above are third-party estimates, not an official published fee schedule. On top of the local fee, Florida adds a state surcharge of 2.5% of permit value, $4 minimum. Verify with City of Tampa Construction Services, (813) 274-3100.

Why Florida matters here

Florida registered more than 250,000 new EVs in 2025 and has 1,121,525 electric and hybrid vehicles on the road. It ranks second nationally for battery-electric registrations, behind California only. Roughly 10.5% of new vehicle registrations in 2025 were EVs.

That is a lot of homeowners about to discover that their utility’s rebate depends on a boundary they have never thought about.