Pedernales Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill Guide

Pedernales Electric Cooperative reported 420,753 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,202 kWh a month on average at 12.75 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, Pedernales Electric Cooperative 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 Pedernales Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 24 counties in Texas. 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, Pedernales Electric Cooperative reported an average of 78 minutes without power per customer and 1.10 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.

Pedernales Electric Cooperative had about 49 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 71 minutes and 1.10 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 78 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. Pedernales Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 681 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 13,584 residential net-metered systems on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 113.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Pedernales Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Texas.

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

By residential customers, Pedernales Electric Cooperative ranks 7th of the 82 utilities that report homes in Texas, with about 3.3% of the state's homes. Its price of 12.75 cents per kWh is 0.59 cents below the median of 56 other cooperatives in Texas (13.34 cents). Over a year, the typical Pedernales Electric Cooperative bill runs about $213 below the state average, with monthly use 91 kWh higher. Pedernales Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 24 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 13,584 of its residential customers use net metering, or 32.3 per 1,000 homes, against 10.9 for Texas as a whole.

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.

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