Cleco Power Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill in 2025

Cleco Power reported 252,816 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,245 kWh a month on average at 14.26 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, Cleco Power ranks 17 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 Cleco Power has distribution equipment. That covers 24 counties 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, Cleco Power reported an average of 146 minutes without power per customer and 1.88 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 78 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Cleco Power had about 19 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Louisiana figure across its utilities was 227 minutes. One interruption lasting 78 minutes and 1.88 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 146 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.

• Time-of-use pricing. Cleco Power reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 3,743 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 shows 4,419 residential net-metered systems on the Cleco Power grid in 2025, with 27.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Louisiana, that review is done by the Louisiana Public Service Commission.

Cleco Power is an investor-owned utility based in Louisiana.

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

Louisiana has 19 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Cleco Power is 3rd by size and serves about 11.7% of the state's homes. At $177.57 a month, an average Cleco Power home pays about $291 a year more than the Louisiana average of $153.32, and uses 20 kWh a month more. Cleco Power lists distribution equipment in 24 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 4,419 of its residential customers use net metering, or 17.5 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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