Ozarks Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Ozarks Electric Cooperative reported 86,120 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,017 kWh a month on average at 13.88 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, Ozarks Electric Cooperative ranks 16 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Ozarks Electric Cooperative's states together. A utility with a large territory can have different rates in different places.

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 Ozarks Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 9 counties in Arkansas, Oklahoma. 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, Ozarks Electric Cooperative reported an average of 132 minutes without power per customer and 1.40 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 94 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Ozarks Electric Cooperative sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Arkansas figure across its utilities was 215 minutes. One interruption lasting 94 minutes and 1.40 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 132 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. Ozarks 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 1,831 residential net-metered systems on the Ozarks Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 17.1 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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Ozarks Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Arkansas, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

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

Of the 25 utilities listed for Arkansas, Ozarks Electric Cooperative is the 4th largest by homes, at roughly 5.0% of the state total. At $141.21 a month, an average Ozarks Electric Cooperative home pays about $33 a year more than the Arkansas average of $138.42, and uses 59 kWh a month less. Ozarks Electric Cooperative reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Arkansas, for comparisons. 1,831 of its residential customers use net metering, or 21.3 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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