Salem Electric Rates, Bills, Service Area and Reliability

Salem Electric reported 18,499 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 874 kWh a month on average at 10.91 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 19 Oregon utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Salem Electric ranks 7 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 Salem Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties in Oregon. 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, Salem Electric reported an average of 6 minutes without power per customer and 0.11 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 56 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Salem Electric had about 121 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Oregon figure across its utilities was 98 minutes. One interruption lasting 56 minutes and 0.11 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 6 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Salem Electric 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 151 residential net-metered systems on the Salem Electric grid in 2025, with 1.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Salem Electric is an electric cooperative based in Oregon.

By residential customers, Salem Electric ranks 11th of the 19 utilities that report homes in Oregon, with about 0.98% of the state's homes. Among 7 other cooperatives in Oregon, the median price is 11.85 cents per kWh, so Salem Electric at 10.91 cents is 0.94 cents below its peers. At $95.36 a month, an average Salem Electric home pays about $462 a year less than the Oregon average of $133.89, and uses 8 kWh a month more. Salem Electric lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 151 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.2 per 1,000 homes, against 34.3 for Oregon as a whole.

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

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