Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative reported 44,971 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,208 kWh a month on average at 12.71 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, Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative ranks 22 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 Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 10 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, Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative reported an average of 714 minutes without power per customer and 4.74 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 151 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative had about 587 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 151 minutes and 4.74 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 714 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. Upshur Rural 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 409 residential net-metered systems on the Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 4.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative ranks 30th of the 82 utilities that report homes in Texas, with about 0.35% of the state's homes. Its price of 12.71 cents per kWh is 0.63 cents below the median of 56 other cooperatives in Texas (13.34 cents). Over a year, the typical Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative bill runs about $208 below the state average, with monthly use 98 kWh higher. Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 10 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 409 of its residential customers use net metering, or 9.1 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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