Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative reported 30,485 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,211 kWh a month on average at 14.24 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 60 Tennessee utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative ranks 56 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 Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 5 counties in Tennessee. 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, Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative reported an average of 8 minutes without power per customer and 3.43 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 2 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative had about 119 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Tennessee figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 2 minutes and 3.43 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 8 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. Meriwether Lewis 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 Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative in 2025. 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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Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Tennessee.

Tennessee has 80 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative is 25th by size and serves about 0.95% of the state's homes. At $172.36 a month, an average Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative home pays about $196 a year more than the Tennessee average of $156.03, and uses 30 kWh a month more. Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 5 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 Tennessee with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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