Southwest Louisiana EMC Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation reported 109,628 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,404 kWh a month on average at 11.57 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 17 Louisiana utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation ranks 8 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 Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 9 counties in Louisiana. 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 Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 172 minutes without power per customer and 2.10 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 82 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation had about 45 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Louisiana figure across its utilities was 227 minutes. One interruption lasting 82 minutes and 2.10 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 172 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership 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 1,063 residential net-metered systems on the Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 7.5 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.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Louisiana Public Service Commission.

Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in Louisiana.

Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 19 utilities listed for Louisiana, Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation is the 6th largest by homes, at roughly 5.1% of the state total. Its price of 11.57 cents per kWh is 1.58 cents below the median of 9 other cooperatives in Louisiana (13.15 cents). At $162.40 a month, an average Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $109 a year more than the Louisiana average of $153.32, and uses 179 kWh a month more. Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 9 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,063 of its residential customers use net metering, or 9.7 per 1,000 homes, against 17.2 for Louisiana as a whole.

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

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