Southwestern Electric Power (SWEPCO) Rates and Average Bill

Southwestern Electric Power (SWEPCO) reported 473,880 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,104 kWh a month on average at 13.10 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, SWEPCO ranks 11 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of SWEPCO'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 SWEPCO has distribution equipment. That covers 50 counties in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas. 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, SWEPCO reported an average of 312 minutes without power per customer and 2.63 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 119 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

SWEPCO had about 184 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Louisiana figure across its utilities was 227 minutes. One interruption lasting 119 minutes and 2.63 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 312 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. SWEPCO reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 473,880 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 2,934 residential net-metered systems on the SWEPCO grid in 2025, with 18.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Louisiana, that review is done by the Louisiana Public Service Commission.

SWEPCO is an investor-owned utility based in Louisiana, and it also reports customers in 2 other states.

SWEPCO 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, SWEPCO is the 2nd largest by homes, at roughly 9.6% of the state total. Its price of 13.10 cents per kWh is about the same as the median of 3 other investor-owned utilities in Louisiana (13.20 cents). At $144.57 a month, an average SWEPCO home pays about $105 a year less than the Louisiana average of $153.32, and uses 121 kWh a month less. SWEPCO reports customers in 3 states, and this profile uses its largest, Louisiana, for comparisons. 2,934 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.2 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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