Tri-County Electric Cooperative, MI Rates and Average Bill

Tri-County Electric Cooperative reported 23,136 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 830 kWh a month on average at 18.33 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 20 Michigan utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Tri-County Electric Cooperative ranks 12 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 13 counties in Michigan. 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 119 minutes without power per customer and 1.28 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 93 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 Michigan figure across its utilities was 161 minutes. One interruption lasting 93 minutes and 1.28 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 119 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 reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 5 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 194 residential net-metered systems on the Tri-County Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 1.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

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

Michigan has 28 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Tri-County Electric Cooperative is 12th by size and serves about 0.51% of the state's homes. Its price of 18.33 cents per kWh is 1.56 cents below the median of 6 other cooperatives in Michigan (19.89 cents). Tri-County Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 13 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 194 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.4 per 1,000 homes, against 6.3 for Michigan as a whole.

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

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