Craighead Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Craighead Electric Cooperative reported 25,180 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,344 kWh a month on average at 12.46 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, Craighead Electric Cooperative ranks 8 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 Craighead Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties 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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For 2025, Craighead Electric Cooperative reported an average of 193 minutes without power per customer and 2.39 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 81 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Craighead Electric Cooperative had about 65 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Arkansas figure across its utilities was 215 minutes. One interruption lasting 81 minutes and 2.39 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 193 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. Craighead 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 151 residential net-metered systems on the Craighead Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 1.5 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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Craighead Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Arkansas.

Arkansas has 25 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Craighead Electric Cooperative is 11th by size and serves about 1.7% of the state's homes. Craighead Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 8 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 151 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.0 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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