Vermont Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Vermont Electric Cooperative reported 36,019 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 567 kWh a month on average at 24.33 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 3 Vermont utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Vermont Electric Cooperative ranks 3 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 Vermont Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties in Vermont. 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, Vermont Electric Cooperative reported an average of 151 minutes without power per customer and 1.45 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 104 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Vermont Electric Cooperative had about 23 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Vermont figure across its utilities was 151 minutes. One interruption lasting 104 minutes and 1.45 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 151 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. Vermont Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 37 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 2,665 residential net-metered systems on the Vermont Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 21.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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.

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Vermont Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Vermont.

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

Of the 3 utilities listed for Vermont, Vermont Electric Cooperative is the 2nd largest by homes, at roughly 11.5% of the state total. Vermont has too few other cooperatives with reported prices to compare Vermont Electric Cooperative with its type, so the state average of 22.79 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. Over a year, the typical Vermont Electric Cooperative bill runs about $39 above the state average, with monthly use 24 kWh lower. Vermont Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 8 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 2,665 of its residential customers use net metering, or 74.0 per 1,000 homes, against 32.0 for Vermont as a whole.

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

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