Southside Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Southside Electric Cooperative reported 57,305 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,162 kWh a month on average at 15.48 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 18 Virginia utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Southside Electric Cooperative ranks 12 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 Southside Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 18 counties in 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, Southside Electric Cooperative reported an average of 324 minutes without power per customer and 2.87 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 113 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Southside Electric Cooperative had about 196 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Virginia figure across its utilities was 284 minutes. One interruption lasting 113 minutes and 2.87 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 324 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. Southside Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 7 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 770 residential net-metered systems on the Southside Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 6.6 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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Southside Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Virginia.

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

Virginia has 17 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Southside Electric Cooperative is 6th by size and serves about 1.6% of the state's homes. Southside Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 18 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 770 of its residential customers use net metering, or 13.4 per 1,000 homes, against 20.7 for Virginia as a whole.

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

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