Tucson Electric Power Co electricity rates

It serves 412,747 residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in Arizona. At 15.63¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the Arizona average of 15.23¢ closely, which is what you would expect from a utility large enough to shape that average itself.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 800 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

A shareholder-owned company whose rates are set by the state regulator, including an approved return on the capital it has invested. 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 Tucson Electric Power Co customer went 113 minutes without electricity across 0.99 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.

Tucson Electric Power Co offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 62,252 households were enrolled, about 15.1% 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.

51,299 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 347.83 megawatts. That works out to 124.3 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.