Petit Jean Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill Guide

Petit Jean Electric Cooperative reported 18,878 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 960 kWh a month on average at 16.62 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, Petit Jean Electric Cooperative ranks 22 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 Petit Jean Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 9 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, Petit Jean Electric Cooperative reported an average of 241 minutes without power per customer and 1.62 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 149 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Petit Jean Electric Cooperative had about 114 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Arkansas figure across its utilities was 215 minutes. One interruption lasting 149 minutes and 1.62 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 241 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. Petit Jean 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 126 residential net-metered systems on the Petit Jean Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 1.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Petit Jean Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Arkansas.

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

By residential customers, Petit Jean Electric Cooperative ranks 14th of the 25 utilities that report homes in Arkansas, with about 1.3% of the state's homes. Its price of 16.62 cents per kWh is 2.79 cents above the median of 13 other cooperatives in Arkansas (13.84 cents). Over a year, the typical Petit Jean Electric Cooperative bill runs about $254 above the state average, with monthly use 116 kWh lower. Petit Jean Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 9 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 126 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.7 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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