Volunteer Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Volunteer Electric Cooperative reported 105,248 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,210 kWh a month on average at 13.08 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 60 Tennessee utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Volunteer Electric Cooperative ranks 29 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 Volunteer Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 15 counties in Tennessee. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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• Time-of-use pricing. Volunteer Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA does not show residential net-metered solar for Volunteer Electric Cooperative in 2025. 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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Volunteer Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Tennessee.

By residential customers, Volunteer Electric Cooperative ranks 6th of the 80 utilities that report homes in Tennessee, with about 3.3% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.08 cents per kWh is 0.52 cents below the median of 19 other cooperatives in Tennessee (13.60 cents). At $158.32 a month, an average Volunteer Electric Cooperative home pays about $27 a year more than the Tennessee average of $156.03, and uses 30 kWh a month more. Volunteer Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 15 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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

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