Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative Rates and Bills

Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative reported 20,472 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,197 kWh a month on average at 14.81 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 11 Iowa utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Eastern Iowa Light and Power 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 Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 12 counties in Iowa. 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, Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative reported an average of 79 minutes without power per customer and 0.83 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 95 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative had about 48 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Iowa figure across its utilities was 80 minutes. One interruption lasting 95 minutes and 0.83 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 79 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. Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 20,472 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 330 residential net-metered systems on the Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative grid in 2025, with 3.4 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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Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Iowa.

Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Iowa has 22 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative is 5th by size and serves about 1.4% of the state's homes. Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 12 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 330 of its residential customers use net metering, or 16.1 per 1,000 homes, against 16.2 for Iowa as a whole.

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

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