Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (PA) electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 18,206 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. Its 20.08¢ per kilowatt-hour sits 6.8% below the Pennsylvania average of 21.55¢.

Its customers use very little electricity by national standards, 568 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.

75 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.78 megawatts. That works out to 4.1 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.