Houston County Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Houston County Electric Cooperative reported 21,761 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 873 kWh a month on average at 15.28 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 64 Texas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Houston County Electric Cooperative ranks 55 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 Houston County Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 9 counties in Texas. 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, Houston County Electric Cooperative reported an average of 195 minutes without power per customer and 2.45 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 79 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Houston County Electric Cooperative had about 68 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 79 minutes and 2.45 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 195 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Houston County 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for Houston County Electric Cooperative in 2025. How net metering works.

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Houston County Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Texas.

Houston County Electric Cooperative operates in the ERCOT and SPP power markets. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Texas has 82 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Houston County Electric Cooperative is 44th by size and serves about 0.17% of the state's homes. Among 56 other cooperatives in Texas, the median price is 13.31 cents per kWh, so Houston County Electric Cooperative at 15.28 cents is 1.97 cents above its peers. At $133.44 a month, an average Houston County Electric Cooperative home pays about $450 a year less than the Texas average of $170.95, and uses 237 kWh a month less. Houston County Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 9 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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

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