City of Chattanooga Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Chattanooga reported 176,219 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,123 kWh a month on average at 12.92 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 60 Tennessee utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Chattanooga ranks 23 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of City of Chattanooga'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 City of Chattanooga has distribution equipment. That covers 9 counties in Tennessee, Georgia. 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. City of Chattanooga reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 99 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA does not show residential net-metered solar for City of Chattanooga in 2025. How net metering works.

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City of Chattanooga is a municipal utility based in Tennessee, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Tennessee has 80 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Chattanooga is 5th by size and serves about 5.2% of the state's homes. Among 58 other municipal utilities in Tennessee, the median price is 12.76 cents per kWh, so City of Chattanooga at 12.92 cents is 0.15 cents above its peers. At $145.10 a month, an average City of Chattanooga home pays about $131 a year less than the Tennessee average of $156.03, and uses 57 kWh a month less. City of Chattanooga reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Tennessee, for comparisons.

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

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