Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE) Rates and Average Bill Guide

Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE) reported 311,520 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,295 kWh a month on average at 12.47 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, MTE ranks 13 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 MTE has distribution equipment. That covers 8 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, MTE reported an average of 48 minutes without power per customer and 0.90 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 53 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

MTE had about 80 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Tennessee figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 53 minutes and 0.90 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 48 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. MTE reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 549 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for MTE 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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MTE is an electric cooperative based in Tennessee.

Tennessee has 80 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. MTE is 3rd by size and serves about 9.7% of the state's homes. Its price of 12.47 cents per kWh is 1.12 cents below the median of 19 other cooperatives in Tennessee (13.60 cents). At $161.57 a month, an average MTE home pays about $66 a year more than the Tennessee average of $156.03, and uses 115 kWh a month more. MTE lists distribution equipment in 8 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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