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White River Valley Electric Cooperative Rates and Bills

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 White River 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

39 thousand

39,401 homes

Average price

15.47 cents

Missouri average 13.30

Average bill

$164.07

Per month at 1,061 kWh

Price rank

28 of 33

Lowest to highest in Missouri

White River Valley Electric Cooperative rates and average bill

White River Valley Electric Cooperative reported 39,401 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,061 kWh a month on average at 15.47 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 33 Missouri utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, White River Valley Electric Cooperative ranks 28 from the lowest price.

White River Valley Electric Cooperative compared with Missouri and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
White River Valley Electric Cooperative15.471,061$164.07
Missouri (all utilities)13.301,038$137.97
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 White River Valley Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 5 counties in Missouri. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Missouri (5 counties)

Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Stone, Taney

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Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. White River 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 686 residential net-metered systems on the White River Valley Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 8.6 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 Missouri Public Service Commission.

White River Valley Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Missouri.

White River Valley Electric Cooperative compared with Missouri

Missouri has 43 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. White River Valley Electric Cooperative is 10th by size and serves about 1.3% of the state's homes. Among 26 other cooperatives in Missouri, the median price is 13.35 cents per kWh, so White River Valley Electric Cooperative at 15.47 cents is 2.12 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical White River Valley Electric Cooperative bill runs about $313 above the state average, with monthly use 23 kWh higher. White River Valley Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 686 of its residential customers use net metering, or 17.4 per 1,000 homes, against 12.8 for Missouri as a whole.

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

Other Missouri utilities

Utilities in Missouri close in size to White River Valley Electric Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
White River Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative39,40115.47
City of ColumbiaMunicipal45,89915.50
Southwest Electric CooperativeCooperative41,67012.33
Laclede Electric CooperativeCooperative35,27512.39
Boone Electric CooperativeCooperative34,09813.57
Ozark Border Electric CooperativeCooperative33,26212.28

See every one on the electric companies in Missouri page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not White River 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.

White River Valley Electric Cooperative questions

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

White River Valley Electric Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 15.47 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,061 kWh a month and an average bill of $164.07 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Missouri average was 13.30 cents.

How many customers does White River Valley Electric Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 39,401 residential customers for White River Valley Electric Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates White River 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 Missouri on the Missouri state page.

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