Pearl River Valley Electric Power Rates and Average Bill

Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association reported 52,557 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,199 kWh a month on average at 15.58 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, Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association ranks 23 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 Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association has distribution equipment. That covers 12 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, Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association reported an average of 261 minutes without power per customer and 3.66 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 71 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association had about 133 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Mississippi figure across its utilities was 319 minutes. One interruption lasting 71 minutes and 3.66 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 261 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. Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association 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 111 residential net-metered systems on the Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association grid in 2025, with 0.8 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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Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association is an electric cooperative based in Mississippi.

Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Mississippi has 40 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association is 6th by size and serves about 3.9% of the state's homes. Among 22 other cooperatives in Mississippi, the median price is 13.61 cents per kWh, so Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association at 15.58 cents is 1.97 cents above its peers. At $186.86 a month, an average Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association home pays about $250 a year more than the Mississippi average of $166.05, and uses 15 kWh a month more. Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association lists distribution equipment in 12 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 111 of its residential customers use net metering, or 2.1 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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