Central Texas Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Central Texas Electric Cooperative reported 40,305 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,074 kWh a month on average at 12.17 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 64 Texas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Central Texas Electric Cooperative ranks 13 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 Texas Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in Texas. 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 Texas Electric Cooperative reported an average of 193 minutes without power per customer and 1.82 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 106 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Central Texas Electric Cooperative had about 65 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 106 minutes and 1.82 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 193 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 Texas 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 565 residential net-metered systems on the Central Texas Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 6.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

Central Texas Electric Cooperative operates in the ERCOT power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Texas has 82 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Central Texas Electric Cooperative is 33rd by size and serves about 0.32% of the state's homes. Central Texas Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 11 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 565 of its residential customers use net metering, or 14.0 per 1,000 homes, against 10.9 for Texas as a whole.

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

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