Carroll-White REMC electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 14,807 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 14.93¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Indiana, 17.7% under the statewide average of 18.15¢.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 1,065 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever the rate does.

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 Carroll-White REMC customer went 423 minutes without electricity . 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.

79 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.76 megawatts. That works out to 5.3 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is below the national median. A low retail rate reduces what solar displaces, and export compensation set at avoided cost rather than the retail rate reduces it further. What exports are actually worth.