Tri-County Electric Cooperative, TX Rates and Average Bill

Tri-County Electric Cooperative reported 117,857 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,512 kWh a month on average at 15.07 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 64 Texas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Tri-County Electric Cooperative ranks 53 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 Tri-County Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 16 counties in Texas. 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, Tri-County Electric Cooperative reported an average of 132 minutes without power per customer and 1.40 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 94 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Tri-County Electric Cooperative sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 94 minutes and 1.40 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 132 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. Tri-County 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 1,907 residential net-metered systems on the Tri-County Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 17.4 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Tri-County Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Texas.

Tri-County Electric Cooperative operates in the ERCOT power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 82 utilities listed for Texas, Tri-County Electric Cooperative is the 15th largest by homes, at roughly 0.92% of the state total. Its price of 15.07 cents per kWh is 1.76 cents above the median of 56 other cooperatives in Texas (13.31 cents). Over a year, the typical Tri-County Electric Cooperative bill runs about $682 above the state average, with monthly use 401 kWh higher. Tri-County Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 16 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,907 of its residential customers use net metering, or 16.2 per 1,000 homes, against 10.9 for Texas as a whole.

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

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