Denton County Elec Coop, Inc electricity rates

It serves 298,734 residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in Texas. At 13.77¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Texas, 16.2% under the statewide average of 16.44¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,208 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 Denton County Elec Coop, Inc customer went 44 minutes without electricity across 0.59 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.

Denton County Elec Coop, Inc offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 2,409 households were enrolled, about 0.8% 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.

8,920 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 82.2 megawatts. That works out to 29.9 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.