Kilowatt Atlas

Electric cooperative

United Electric Cooperative Service 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 United Electric Cooperative Service, 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

91 thousand

91,268 homes

Average price

13.91 cents

Texas average 15.40

Average bill

$180.47

Per month at 1,297 kWh

Price rank

43 of 64

Lowest to highest in Texas

United Electric Cooperative Service rates and average bill

United Electric Cooperative Service reported 91,268 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,297 kWh a month on average at 13.91 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, United Electric Cooperative Service ranks 43 from the lowest price.

United Electric Cooperative Service compared with Texas and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
United Electric Cooperative Service13.911,297$180.47
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 United Electric Cooperative Service has distribution equipment. That covers 14 counties in Texas. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Texas (14 counties)

Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Eastland, Ellis, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Somervell, Stephens, Tarrant, Young

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Reliability

For 2025, United Electric Cooperative Service reported an average of 72 minutes without power per customer and 0.86 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 84 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

United Electric Cooperative Service had about 55 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 84 minutes and 0.86 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 72 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. United Electric Cooperative Service 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 2,406 residential net-metered systems on the United Electric Cooperative Service grid in 2025, with 29.4 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.

United Electric Cooperative Service is an electric cooperative based in Texas.

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

United Electric Cooperative Service compared with Texas

By residential customers, United Electric Cooperative Service ranks 19th of the 82 utilities that report homes in Texas, with about 0.71% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.91 cents per kWh is 0.60 cents above the median of 56 other cooperatives in Texas (13.31 cents). At $180.47 a month, an average United Electric Cooperative Service home pays about $114 a year more than the Texas average of $170.95, and uses 187 kWh a month more. United Electric Cooperative Service lists distribution equipment in 14 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 2,406 of its residential customers use net metering, or 26.4 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 United Electric Cooperative Service
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
United Electric Cooperative ServiceCooperative91,26813.91
Guadalupe Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative95,35811.83
City of LubbockMunicipal94,738Delivery only
Sam Houston Electric CooperativeCooperative88,42414.18
Farmers Electric CooperativeCooperative88,22111.95
Trinity Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative82,22412.24

See every one on the electric companies in Texas page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not United Electric Cooperative Service 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.

United Electric Cooperative Service questions

What is the average residential electric rate for United Electric Cooperative Service?

United Electric Cooperative Service residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 13.91 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,297 kWh a month and an average bill of $180.47 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Texas average was 15.40 cents.

How many customers does United Electric Cooperative Service have?

EIA reports about 91,268 residential customers for United Electric Cooperative Service in 2025.

Who regulates United Electric Cooperative Service?

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 United Electric Cooperative Service?

For 2025, United Electric Cooperative Service reported an average of 72 minutes of outage per customer and 0.86 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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