Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative reported 28,185 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 570 kWh a month on average at 15.76 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 13 New Mexico utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative ranks 7 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 Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 5 counties in New Mexico. 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, Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative reported an average of 472 minutes without power per customer and 3.45 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 137 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative had about 345 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The New Mexico figure across its utilities was 143 minutes. One interruption lasting 137 minutes and 3.45 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 472 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. Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 234 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 641 residential net-metered systems on the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 3.7 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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Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in New Mexico.

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

Of the 14 utilities listed for New Mexico, Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative is the 3rd largest by homes, at roughly 3.0% of the state total. Among 10 other cooperatives in New Mexico, the median price is 16.27 cents per kWh, so Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative at 15.76 cents is 0.51 cents below its peers. At $89.84 a month, an average Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative home pays about $58 a year less than the New Mexico average of $94.65, and uses 68 kWh a month less. Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 641 of its residential customers use net metering, or 22.7 per 1,000 homes, against 70.2 for New Mexico as a whole.

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

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