Central Alabama Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Central Alabama Electric Cooperative reported 45,580 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,157 kWh a month on average at 17.21 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 30 Alabama utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Central Alabama Electric Cooperative ranks 26 from the lowest price.

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 Central Alabama Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 10 counties in Alabama. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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• Time-of-use pricing. Central Alabama 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 36 residential net-metered systems on the Central Alabama Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 0.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

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Central Alabama Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Alabama.

By residential customers, Central Alabama Electric Cooperative ranks 6th of the 43 utilities that report homes in Alabama, with about 1.9% of the state's homes. At $199.14 a month, an average Central Alabama Electric Cooperative home pays about $178 a year more than the Alabama average of $184.31, and uses 12 kWh a month more. Central Alabama Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 10 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 36 of its residential customers use net metering, or 0.8 per 1,000 homes, against 0.0 for Alabama as a whole.

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

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