Empire District Electric Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

Empire District Electric reported 161,373 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,043 kWh a month on average at 14.67 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 33 Missouri utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Empire District Electric ranks 24 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Empire District Electric's states together. A utility with a large territory can have different rates in different places.

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 Empire District Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 21 counties in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Not sure who serves your address? Use find my electric company.

For 2025, Empire District Electric reported an average of 102 minutes without power per customer and 1.34 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 76 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Empire District Electric had about 25 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Missouri figure across its utilities was 114 minutes. One interruption lasting 76 minutes and 1.34 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 102 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. Empire District Electric reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 143,351 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 5,574 residential net-metered systems on the Empire District Electric grid in 2025, with 81.1 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 Missouri, that review is done by the Missouri Public Service Commission.

Empire District Electric is an investor-owned utility based in Missouri, and it also reports customers in 3 other states.

Empire District Electric operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Missouri has 43 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Empire District Electric is 4th by size and serves about 4.9% of the state's homes. At $152.98 a month, an average Empire District Electric home pays about $180 a year more than the Missouri average of $137.97, and uses 5 kWh a month more. Empire District Electric reports customers in 4 states, and this profile uses its largest, Missouri, for comparisons. 5,574 of its residential customers use net metering, or 34.5 per 1,000 homes, against 12.8 for Missouri as a whole.

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

See every one on the electric companies in Missouri page.

Kilowatt Atlas is not Empire District Electric and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

• Want to understand a line on your bill? Read how to read your electric bill.
• Think your bill is high? Try the bill checker.