Southwest Arkansas Electric Co-op Rates and Average Bill

Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation reported 26,288 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,272 kWh a month on average at 13.89 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 22 Arkansas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation ranks 17 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation'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 Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma. 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, Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation reported an average of 200 minutes without power per customer and 1.53 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 131 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation had about 72 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Arkansas figure across its utilities was 215 minutes. One interruption lasting 131 minutes and 1.53 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 200 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. Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation 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 123 residential net-metered systems on the Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation grid in 2025, with 1.3 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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Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation is an electric cooperative based in Arkansas, and it also reports customers in 2 other states.

Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation operates in the SPP and MISO power markets. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Arkansas has 25 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation is 10th by size and serves about 1.7% of the state's homes. Among 13 other cooperatives in Arkansas, the median price is 13.84 cents per kWh, so Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation at 13.89 cents is about the same as its peers. At $176.61 a month, an average Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation home pays about $458 a year more than the Arkansas average of $138.42, and uses 196 kWh a month more. Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation reports customers in 3 states, and this profile uses its largest, Arkansas, for comparisons. 123 of its residential customers use net metering, or 4.7 per 1,000 homes, against 13.5 for Arkansas as a whole.

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

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