City of Lafayette Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Lafayette reported 60,634 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,208 kWh a month on average at 11.51 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 17 Louisiana utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Lafayette ranks 7 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 City of Lafayette has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Louisiana. 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, City of Lafayette reported an average of 27 minutes without power per customer and 0.64 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 42 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Lafayette had about 100 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Louisiana figure across its utilities was 227 minutes. One interruption lasting 42 minutes and 0.64 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 27 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. City of Lafayette 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 355 residential net-metered systems on the City of Lafayette grid in 2025, with 2.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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For questions about state consumer protections, see the Louisiana Public Service Commission.

City of Lafayette is a municipal utility based in Louisiana.

City of Lafayette operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 19 utilities listed for Louisiana, City of Lafayette is the 7th largest by homes, at roughly 2.8% of the state total. City of Lafayette lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 355 of its residential customers use net metering, or 5.9 per 1,000 homes, against 17.2 for Louisiana as a whole.

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

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