Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative reported 59,272 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,104 kWh a month on average at 14.09 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 22 Arkansas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative ranks 18 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative's states together. A utility with a large territory can have different rates in different places.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 14 counties in Arkansas, Oklahoma. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 118 minutes without power per customer and 1.90 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 62 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Arkansas figure across its utilities was 215 minutes. One interruption lasting 62 minutes and 1.90 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 118 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 1,038 residential net-metered systems on the Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 12.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Arkansas, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

By residential customers, Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative ranks 5th of the 25 utilities that report homes in Arkansas, with about 3.7% of the state's homes. Its price of 14.09 cents per kWh is 0.25 cents above the median of 13 other cooperatives in Arkansas (13.84 cents). At $155.45 a month, an average Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative home pays about $204 a year more than the Arkansas average of $138.42, and uses 28 kWh a month more. Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Arkansas, for comparisons. 1,038 of its residential customers use net metering, or 17.5 per 1,000 homes, against 13.5 for Arkansas as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Arkansas with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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