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Claiborne Electric Cooperative 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 Claiborne Electric Cooperative, 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

21 thousand

21,354 homes

Average price

13.32 cents

Louisiana average 12.52

Average bill

$153.16

Per month at 1,150 kWh

Price rank

15 of 17

Lowest to highest in Louisiana

Claiborne Electric Cooperative rates and average bill

Claiborne Electric Cooperative reported 21,354 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,150 kWh a month on average at 13.32 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, Claiborne Electric Cooperative ranks 15 from the lowest price.

Claiborne Electric Cooperative compared with Louisiana and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Claiborne Electric Cooperative13.321,150$153.16
Louisiana (all utilities)12.521,225$153.32
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 Claiborne Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Louisiana. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Louisiana (6 counties)

Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union, Webster

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Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Claiborne 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 119 residential net-metered systems on the Claiborne Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 0.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

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

Claiborne Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Louisiana.

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

Claiborne Electric Cooperative compared with Louisiana

By residential customers, Claiborne Electric Cooperative ranks 10th of the 19 utilities that report homes in Louisiana, with about 0.99% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.32 cents per kWh is 0.18 cents above the median of 9 other cooperatives in Louisiana (13.14 cents). The typical Claiborne Electric Cooperative bill of $153.16 a month is within about $12 a year of the Louisiana average, so a household here pays close to what a typical household in the state pays. Claiborne Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 119 of its residential customers use net metering, or 5.6 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.

Other Louisiana utilities

Utilities in Louisiana close in size to Claiborne Electric Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Claiborne Electric CooperativeCooperative21,35413.32
Washington-St. Tammany Electric CooperativeCooperative51,18711.04
Beauregard Electric CooperativeCooperative40,45213.14
City of AlexandriaMunicipal19,42511.05
Panola-Harrison Electric CooperativeCooperative17,91710.29
South Louisiana Electric Cooperative AssociationCooperative17,33512.25

See every one on the electric companies in Louisiana page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Claiborne Electric Cooperative 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.

Claiborne Electric Cooperative questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Claiborne Electric Cooperative?

Claiborne Electric Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 13.32 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,150 kWh a month and an average bill of $153.16 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Louisiana average was 12.52 cents.

How many customers does Claiborne Electric Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 21,354 residential customers for Claiborne Electric Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates Claiborne Electric Cooperative?

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return. See the regulator for Louisiana on the Louisiana state page.

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