Mississippi Power Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Mississippi Power reported 158,206 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,139 kWh a month on average at 15.69 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 25 Mississippi utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Mississippi Power ranks 24 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 Mississippi Power has distribution equipment. That covers 23 counties in Mississippi. 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, Mississippi Power reported an average of 76 minutes without power per customer and 0.88 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 86 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Mississippi Power had about 52 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Mississippi figure across its utilities was 319 minutes. One interruption lasting 86 minutes and 0.88 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 76 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. Mississippi Power 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 shows 530 residential net-metered systems on the Mississippi Power grid in 2025, with 5.1 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 Mississippi, that review is done by the Mississippi Public Service Commission.

Mississippi Power is an investor-owned utility based in Mississippi.

Of the 40 utilities listed for Mississippi, Mississippi Power is the 2nd largest by homes, at roughly 11.7% of the state total. Mississippi has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Mississippi Power with its type, so the state average of 14.03 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. Mississippi Power lists distribution equipment in 23 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 530 of its residential customers use net metering, or 3.4 per 1,000 homes, against 1.6 for Mississippi as a whole.

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

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