Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 26,097 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 18.18¢ per kilowatt-hour it is among the more expensive utilities in New Mexico, 28.8% above the statewide average of 14.12¢.

Its customers use very little electricity by national standards, 492 kilowatt-hours a month against 871 nationally. Dense housing, a mild climate or heating that runs on gas rather than electricity all push consumption down, and any of them can leave a household with a modest bill despite a high rate.

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 Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc customer went 185 minutes without electricity across 1.42 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.

Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 522 households were enrolled, about 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.

512 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 2.37 megawatts. That works out to 19.6 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.