Chugach Electric Assn Inc electricity rates

It serves 97,048 residential customers in Alaska. At 21.24¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Alaska, 24.8% under the statewide average of 28.23¢.

Its customers use very little electricity by national standards, 507 kilowatt-hours a month against 871 nationally. Dense housing, a mild climate or heating that runs on gas rather than electricity all push consumption down, and any of them can leave a household with a modest bill despite a high rate.

Owned by the customers it serves, with directors elected by members. Co-ops are frequently outside state rate regulation. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

In 2024 the average Chugach Electric Assn Inc customer went 209 minutes without electricity across 1.99 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is worse than typical. Overhead lines through wooded or storm-exposed terrain are the usual explanation, and the fix is vegetation management and circuit automation, both of which are recovered through rates.

922 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 4.66 megawatts. That works out to 9.5 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.