City Water and Light Plant Rates, Bills and Service Area

City Water and Light Plant reported 35,335 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,258 kWh a month on average at 7.14 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 Water and Light Plant ranks 1 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 Water and Light Plant 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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• Time-of-use pricing. City Water and Light Plant 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 57 residential net-metered systems on the City Water and Light Plant grid in 2025, with 0.5 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City Water and Light Plant is a municipal utility based in Arkansas.

City Water and Light Plant operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, City Water and Light Plant ranks 8th of the 25 utilities that report homes in Arkansas, with about 2.4% of the state's homes. Among 9 other municipal utilities in Arkansas, the median price is 10.40 cents per kWh, so City Water and Light Plant at 7.14 cents is 3.26 cents below its peers. Over a year, the typical City Water and Light Plant bill runs about $584 below the state average, with monthly use 182 kWh higher. City Water and Light Plant lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 57 of its residential customers use net metering, or 1.6 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.

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