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City of North Little Rock Rates, Bills and Service Area

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with City of North Little Rock, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

36 thousand

35,721 homes

Average price

12.49 cents

Arkansas average 12.87

Average bill

$112.16

Per month at 898 kWh

Price rank

9 of 22

Lowest to highest in Arkansas

City of North Little Rock rates and average bill

City of North Little Rock reported 35,721 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 898 kWh a month on average at 12.49 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 22 Arkansas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of North Little Rock ranks 9 from the lowest price.

City of North Little Rock compared with Arkansas and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
City of North Little Rock12.49898$112.16
Arkansas (all utilities)12.871,076$138.42
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where City of North Little Rock has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Arkansas. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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Reliability

For 2025, City of North Little Rock reported an average of 65 minutes without power per customer and 0.80 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 82 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of North Little Rock had about 62 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Arkansas figure across its utilities was 215 minutes. One interruption lasting 82 minutes and 0.80 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 65 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. City of North Little Rock 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 396 residential net-metered systems on the City of North Little Rock grid in 2025, with 3.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it.

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

City of North Little Rock is a municipal utility based in Arkansas.

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

City of North Little Rock compared with Arkansas

Arkansas has 25 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of North Little Rock is 7th by size and serves about 2.4% of the state's homes. Among 9 other municipal utilities in Arkansas, the median price is 10.39 cents per kWh, so City of North Little Rock at 12.49 cents is 2.10 cents above its peers. At $112.16 a month, an average City of North Little Rock home pays about $315 a year less than the Arkansas average of $138.42, and uses 178 kWh a month less. City of North Little Rock lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 396 of its residential customers use net metering, or 11.1 per 1,000 homes, against 13.5 for Arkansas as a whole.

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

Other Arkansas utilities

Utilities in Arkansas close in size to City of North Little Rock
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
City of North Little RockMunicipal35,72112.49
Arkansas Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative59,27214.09
North Arkansas Electric CooperativeCooperative36,59514.17
City Water and Light PlantMunicipal35,3357.14
Conway CorporationMunicipal31,3769.49
Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative CorporationCooperative26,28813.89

See every one on the electric companies in Arkansas page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not City of North Little Rock and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

City of North Little Rock questions

What is the average residential electric rate for City of North Little Rock?

City of North Little Rock residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 12.49 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 898 kWh a month and an average bill of $112.16 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Arkansas average was 12.87 cents.

How many customers does City of North Little Rock have?

EIA reports about 35,721 residential customers for City of North Little Rock in 2025.

Who regulates City of North Little Rock?

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it. See the regulator for Arkansas on the Arkansas state page.

How reliable is City of North Little Rock?

For 2025, City of North Little Rock reported an average of 65 minutes of outage per customer and 0.80 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (other standard). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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