Grayson-Collin Elec Coop, Inc electricity rates

It serves 90,464 residential customers in Texas. At 16.40¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the Texas average of 16.44¢ closely, which is what you would expect from a utility large enough to shape that average itself.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 1,132 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever 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 Grayson-Collin Elec Coop, Inc customer went 190 minutes without electricity . The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is worse than typical. Overhead lines through wooded or storm-exposed terrain are the usual explanation, and the fix is vegetation management and circuit automation, both of which are recovered through rates.

2,900 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 31.08 megawatts. That works out to 32.1 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.