Southwest Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Southwest Electric Cooperative reported 41,670 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,109 kWh a month on average at 12.33 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 33 Missouri utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Southwest Electric Cooperative ranks 6 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 Southwest Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in Missouri. 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 Electric Cooperative reported an average of 214 minutes without power per customer and 0.92 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 233 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Southwest Electric Cooperative had about 87 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Missouri figure across its utilities was 114 minutes. One interruption lasting 233 minutes and 0.92 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 214 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 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 368 residential net-metered systems on the Southwest Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 3.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Southwest Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Missouri.

Of the 43 utilities listed for Missouri, Southwest Electric Cooperative is the 9th largest by homes, at roughly 1.4% of the state total. Its price of 12.33 cents per kWh is 1.14 cents below the median of 26 other cooperatives in Missouri (13.47 cents). At $136.75 a month, an average Southwest Electric Cooperative home pays about $15 a year less than the Missouri average of $137.97, and uses 72 kWh a month more. Southwest Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 11 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 368 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.8 per 1,000 homes, against 12.8 for Missouri as a whole.

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

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