Electrical Dist No3 Pinal County electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 32,009 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. Its 13.93¢ per kilowatt-hour sits 8.5% below the Arizona average of 15.23¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,182 kilowatt-hours a month against a national average of 871. Long cooling seasons, large detached homes and electric resistance heating are the usual causes, and together they matter more to the bill than the rate does.

A public body created by the state or county, governed by an elected or appointed board rather than by shareholders. 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 Electrical Dist No3 Pinal County customer went 132 minutes without electricity across 1.55 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is better than the typical American utility, though the figure includes major storm days and can move sharply from one year to the next.

Electrical Dist No3 Pinal County offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 1,080 households were enrolled, about 3.4% of its residential base.

These plans are opt-in almost everywhere. They reward households that can move laundry, dishwashing, water heating or electric vehicle charging out of the late-afternoon peak, and they cost more than the standard rate for households that cannot. How to tell which group you are in.

3,514 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 25.57 megawatts. That works out to 109.8 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption here is exceptionally high. That usually means some combination of a high retail rate worth displacing, strong sunshine and favourable export rules, and it tends to bring its own regulatory argument about who covers the fixed cost of the network. What exports are actually worth.