Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX) electricity rates

It serves 118,075 residential customers in Texas. At 12.65¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Texas, 23.1% under the statewide average of 16.44¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,487 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 Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX) customer went 135 minutes without electricity across 1.42 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is better than the typical American utility, though the figure includes major storm days and can move sharply from one year to the next.

1,907 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 17.39 megawatts. That works out to 16.2 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.