Coast Electric Power Association Rates and Average Bill

Coast Electric Power Association reported 84,194 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,232 kWh a month on average at 14.01 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 25 Mississippi utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Coast Electric Power Association ranks 19 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 Coast Electric Power Association has distribution equipment. That covers 3 counties in Mississippi. 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, Coast Electric Power Association reported an average of 83 minutes without power per customer and 1.24 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 67 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Coast Electric Power Association had about 44 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Mississippi figure across its utilities was 319 minutes. One interruption lasting 67 minutes and 1.24 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 83 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. Coast Electric Power Association reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 29,054 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 414 residential net-metered systems on the Coast Electric Power Association grid in 2025, with 2.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Coast Electric Power Association is an electric cooperative based in Mississippi.

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

Of the 40 utilities listed for Mississippi, Coast Electric Power Association is the 3rd largest by homes, at roughly 6.2% of the state total. Its price of 14.01 cents per kWh is 0.40 cents above the median of 22 other cooperatives in Mississippi (13.61 cents). Coast Electric Power Association lists distribution equipment in 3 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 414 of its residential customers use net metering, or 4.9 per 1,000 homes, against 1.6 for Mississippi as a whole.

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

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