Valley Electric Assn, Inc electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 22,368 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 16.73¢ per kilowatt-hour it is among the more expensive utilities in Nevada, 23% above the statewide average of 13.60¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,197 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.

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 Valley Electric Assn, Inc customer went 85 minutes without electricity across 1.07 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.

2,196 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 21.82 megawatts. That works out to 98.2 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.