Covington Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Covington Electric Cooperative reported 23,625 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,135 kWh a month on average at 17.62 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 30 Alabama utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Covington Electric Cooperative ranks 29 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 Covington Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Alabama. 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, Covington Electric Cooperative reported an average of 86 minutes without power per customer and 1.34 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 64 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Covington Electric Cooperative had about 41 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Alabama figure across its utilities was 127 minutes. One interruption lasting 64 minutes and 1.34 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 86 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. Covington 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 15 residential net-metered systems on the Covington Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 0.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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.

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Covington Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Alabama.

By residential customers, Covington Electric Cooperative ranks 13th of the 43 utilities that report homes in Alabama, with about 0.98% of the state's homes. Its price of 17.62 cents per kWh is 2.55 cents above the median of 19 other cooperatives in Alabama (15.07 cents). Covington Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 15 of its residential customers use net metering, or 0.6 per 1,000 homes, against 0.0 for Alabama as a whole.

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

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