Cleco Power LLC electricity rates

It serves 251,927 residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in Louisiana. At 12.33¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Louisiana, 12.9% under the statewide average of 14.15¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,217 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 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 Cleco Power LLC customer went 730 minutes without electricity across 3.1 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is far worse than typical, and figures at this level almost always reflect a major storm season rather than everyday performance. A single hurricane or ice storm can dominate the annual number.

Cleco Power LLC offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 3,035 households were enrolled, about 1.2% 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.

4,158 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 24.95 megawatts. That works out to 16.5 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.