Middle Tennessee E M C electricity rates

It serves 307,370 residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in Tennessee. At 11.76¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Tennessee, 18.7% under the statewide average of 14.47¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,261 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 Middle Tennessee E M C customer went 49 minutes without electricity across 0.93 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.

Middle Tennessee E M C offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 334 households were enrolled, about 0.1% 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.