San Bernard Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

San Bernard Electric Cooperative reported 32,557 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,255 kWh a month on average at 14.11 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, San Bernard Electric Cooperative ranks 46 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 San Bernard Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 8 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, San Bernard Electric Cooperative reported an average of 110 minutes without power per customer and 1.18 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 93 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

San Bernard Electric Cooperative had about 17 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 93 minutes and 1.18 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 110 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. San Bernard 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 San Bernard 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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San Bernard Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Texas.

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

Of the 82 utilities listed for Texas, San Bernard Electric Cooperative is the 38th largest by homes, at roughly 0.25% of the state total. Among 56 other cooperatives in Texas, the median price is 13.31 cents per kWh, so San Bernard Electric Cooperative at 14.11 cents is 0.80 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical San Bernard Electric Cooperative bill runs about $74 above the state average, with monthly use 145 kWh higher. San Bernard Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 8 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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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