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Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

82 thousand

82,224 homes

Average price

12.24 cents

Texas average 15.40

Average bill

$157.97

Per month at 1,290 kWh

Price rank

15 of 64

Lowest to highest in Texas

Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative rates and average bill

Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative reported 82,224 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,290 kWh a month on average at 12.24 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, Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative ranks 15 from the lowest price.

Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative compared with Texas and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative12.241,290$157.97
Texas (all utilities)15.401,110$170.95
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Texas. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Texas (6 counties)

Anderson, Dallas, Henderson, Hunt, Kaufman, Van Zandt

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Reliability

For 2025, Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 142 minutes without power per customer and 1.98 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 72 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative had about 15 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 72 minutes and 1.98 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 142 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Trinity Valley 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 1,769 residential net-metered systems on the Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 15.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

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 Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Texas.

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

Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative compared with Texas

Texas has 82 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative is 22nd by size and serves about 0.64% of the state's homes. Its price of 12.24 cents per kWh is 1.09 cents below the median of 56 other cooperatives in Texas (13.34 cents). At $157.97 a month, an average Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative home pays about $156 a year less than the Texas average of $170.95, and uses 180 kWh a month more. Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,769 of its residential customers use net metering, or 21.5 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.

Other Texas utilities

Utilities in Texas close in size to Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Trinity Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative82,22412.24
Sam Houston Electric CooperativeCooperative88,42414.18
Farmers Electric CooperativeCooperative88,22111.95
City of GarlandMunicipal70,62713.68
City of DentonMunicipal63,75713.60
City of BryanMunicipal62,53510.89

See every one on the electric companies in Texas page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative?

Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 12.24 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,290 kWh a month and an average bill of $157.97 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Texas average was 15.40 cents.

How many customers does Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 82,224 residential customers for Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative?

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. See the regulator for Texas on the Texas state page.

How reliable is Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative?

For 2025, Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 142 minutes of outage per customer and 1.98 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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