Trico Electric Cooperative Inc electricity rates

It serves 52,450 residential customers in Arizona. Its 14.17¢ per kilowatt-hour sits 7% below the Arizona average of 15.23¢.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 942 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

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 Trico Electric Cooperative Inc customer went 150 minutes without electricity across 1.03 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.

Trico Electric Cooperative Inc offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 1,887 households were enrolled, about 3.6% 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.

5,536 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 43.99 megawatts. That works out to 105.5 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.