Southern Pine Electric Cooperative, AL Rates and Bills Guide

Southern Pine Electric Cooperative reported 20,846 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,047 kWh a month on average at 14.55 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 30 Alabama utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Southern Pine Electric Cooperative ranks 15 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 Southern Pine Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 5 counties in Alabama. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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• Time-of-use pricing. Southern Pine 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 4 residential net-metered systems on the Southern Pine Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 0.0 megawatts of capacity. 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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Southern Pine Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Alabama.

Alabama has 43 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Southern Pine Electric Cooperative is 17th by size and serves about 0.86% of the state's homes. Its price of 14.55 cents per kWh is 0.89 cents below the median of 19 other cooperatives in Alabama (15.44 cents). At $152.33 a month, an average Southern Pine Electric Cooperative home pays about $384 a year less than the Alabama average of $184.31, and uses 99 kWh a month less. Southern Pine Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 4 of its residential customers use net metering, or 0.2 per 1,000 homes, against 0.0 for Alabama as a whole.

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

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