Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc electricity rates

It serves 92,189 residential customers in Texas. At 12.49¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Texas, 24% under the statewide average of 16.44¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,197 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 Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc customer went 200 minutes without electricity across 1.55 interruptions. 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.

Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 28 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.

4,246 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 36.75 megawatts. That works out to 46.1 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.