Salt River Project electricity rates

It serves 1.1 million residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in Arizona. Its 13.46¢ per kilowatt-hour sits 11.6% below the Arizona average of 15.23¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,211 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 Salt River Project customer went 58 minutes without electricity across 0.95 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is markedly better than typical. Short outage durations usually mean an underground or heavily automated network, and they are expensive to achieve, which is part of why reliable systems often carry higher delivery charges.

Salt River Project offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 360,794 households were enrolled, about 34.3% 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.

59,735 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 393.22 megawatts. That works out to 56.7 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.