Central Rural Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Central Rural Electric Cooperative reported 20,052 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,499 kWh a month on average at 12.89 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 28 Oklahoma utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Central Rural Electric Cooperative ranks 10 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 Rural Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties in 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, Central Rural Electric Cooperative reported an average of 138 minutes without power per customer and 1.28 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 108 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Central Rural Electric Cooperative had about 10 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Oklahoma figure across its utilities was 127 minutes. One interruption lasting 108 minutes and 1.28 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 138 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. Central Rural 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 189 residential net-metered systems on the Central Rural Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 1.8 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 Rural Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma has 29 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Central Rural Electric Cooperative is 13th by size and serves about 1.1% of the state's homes. Among 21 other cooperatives in Oklahoma, the median price is 13.41 cents per kWh, so Central Rural Electric Cooperative at 12.89 cents is 0.52 cents below its peers. Over a year, the typical Central Rural Electric Cooperative bill runs about $633 above the state average, with monthly use 435 kWh higher. Central Rural Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 8 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 189 of its residential customers use net metering, or 9.4 per 1,000 homes, against 9.8 for Oklahoma as a whole.

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

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