North Arkansas Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

North Arkansas Electric Cooperative reported 36,595 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,011 kWh a month on average at 14.17 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 22 Arkansas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, North Arkansas Electric Cooperative ranks 19 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 North Arkansas Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 7 counties in Arkansas. 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, North Arkansas Electric Cooperative reported an average of 202 minutes without power per customer and 1.86 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 109 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

North Arkansas Electric Cooperative had about 75 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Arkansas figure across its utilities was 215 minutes. One interruption lasting 109 minutes and 1.86 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 202 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. North Arkansas 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 shows 341 residential net-metered systems on the North Arkansas Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 4.3 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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North Arkansas Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Arkansas.

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

Arkansas has 25 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. North Arkansas Electric Cooperative is 6th by size and serves about 2.5% of the state's homes. At $143.25 a month, an average North Arkansas Electric Cooperative home pays about $58 a year more than the Arkansas average of $138.42, and uses 65 kWh a month less. North Arkansas Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 341 of its residential customers use net metering, or 9.3 per 1,000 homes, against 13.5 for Arkansas as a whole.

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

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