Powell Valley Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Powell Valley Electric Cooperative reported 27,788 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,097 kWh a month on average at 12.20 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 60 Tennessee utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Powell Valley Electric Cooperative ranks 6 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Powell Valley 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 Powell Valley Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties in Tennessee, Virginia. 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, Powell Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 162 minutes without power per customer and 4.27 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 38 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Powell Valley Electric Cooperative had about 35 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Tennessee figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 38 minutes and 4.27 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 162 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. Powell Valley 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 Powell Valley Electric Cooperative in 2025. 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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Powell Valley Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Tennessee, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Of the 80 utilities listed for Tennessee, Powell Valley Electric Cooperative is the 30th largest by homes, at roughly 0.66% of the state total. Its price of 12.20 cents per kWh is 1.40 cents below the median of 19 other cooperatives in Tennessee (13.60 cents). At $133.80 a month, an average Powell Valley Electric Cooperative home pays about $267 a year less than the Tennessee average of $156.03, and uses 84 kWh a month less. Powell Valley Electric Cooperative reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Tennessee, for comparisons.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Tennessee with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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