Southwestern Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Southwestern Electric Cooperative reported 24,414 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,160 kWh a month on average at 15.37 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 18 Illinois utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Southwestern Electric Cooperative ranks 9 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 Southwestern Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in Illinois. 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, Southwestern Electric Cooperative reported an average of 195 minutes without power per customer and 1.68 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 116 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Southwestern Electric Cooperative had about 67 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Illinois figure across its utilities was 62 minutes. One interruption lasting 116 minutes and 1.68 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 195 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. Southwestern 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for Southwestern Electric Cooperative in 2025. How net metering works.

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Southwestern Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Illinois.

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

By residential customers, Southwestern Electric Cooperative ranks 6th of the 23 utilities that report homes in Illinois, with about 0.45% of the state's homes. At $178.24 a month, an average Southwestern Electric Cooperative home pays about $620 a year more than the Illinois average of $126.59, and uses 443 kWh a month more. Southwestern Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 11 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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

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