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Nueces Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Nueces Electric Cooperative, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

50 thousand

49,903 homes

Average price

11.35 cents

Texas average 15.40

Average bill

$148.57

Per month at 1,309 kWh

Price rank

8 of 64

Lowest to highest in Texas

Nueces Electric Cooperative rates and average bill

Nueces Electric Cooperative reported 49,903 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,309 kWh a month on average at 11.35 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 64 Texas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Nueces Electric Cooperative ranks 8 from the lowest price.

Nueces Electric Cooperative compared with Texas and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Nueces Electric Cooperative11.351,309$148.57
Texas (all utilities)15.401,110$170.95
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Nueces Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties in Texas. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Texas (8 counties)

Brooks, Duval, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, McMullen, Nueces

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Reliability

For 2025, Nueces Electric Cooperative reported an average of 114 minutes without power per customer and 1.07 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 107 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Nueces Electric Cooperative had about 14 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 107 minutes and 1.07 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 114 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Nueces 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 Nueces Electric Cooperative in 2025. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

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.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Nueces Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Texas.

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

Nueces Electric Cooperative compared with Texas

Of the 82 utilities listed for Texas, Nueces Electric Cooperative is the 28th largest by homes, at roughly 0.39% of the state total. Nueces Electric Cooperative 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 Texas with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

Other Texas utilities

Utilities in Texas close in size to Nueces Electric Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Nueces Electric CooperativeCooperative49,90311.35
South Plains Electric CooperativeCooperative58,72611.02
City of New BraunfelsMunicipal57,05012.39
Brownsville Public Utilities BoardMunicipal48,50011.22
Upshur Rural Electric CooperativeCooperative44,97112.71
City of College StationMunicipal42,53114.58

See every one on the electric companies in Texas page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Nueces Electric Cooperative and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

Nueces Electric Cooperative questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Nueces Electric Cooperative?

Nueces Electric Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 11.35 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,309 kWh a month and an average bill of $148.57 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Texas average was 15.40 cents.

How many customers does Nueces Electric Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 49,903 residential customers for Nueces Electric Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates Nueces Electric Cooperative?

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. See the regulator for Texas on the Texas state page.

How reliable is Nueces Electric Cooperative?

For 2025, Nueces Electric Cooperative reported an average of 114 minutes of outage per customer and 1.07 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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