Kilowatt Atlas

Electric cooperative

Wise Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

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 Wise 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

21 thousand

20,682 homes

Average price

15.33 cents

Texas average 15.40

Average bill

$220.96

Per month at 1,441 kWh

Price rank

56 of 64

Lowest to highest in Texas

Wise Electric Cooperative rates and average bill

Wise Electric Cooperative reported 20,682 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,441 kWh a month on average at 15.33 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, Wise Electric Cooperative ranks 56 from the lowest price.

Wise Electric Cooperative compared with Texas and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Wise Electric Cooperative15.331,441$220.96
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 Wise Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 7 counties in Texas. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Texas (7 counties)

Clay, Cooke, Denton, Jack, Montague, Parker, Wise

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Reliability

For 2025, Wise Electric Cooperative reported an average of 234 minutes without power per customer and 2.39 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 98 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Wise Electric Cooperative had about 107 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Texas figure across its utilities was 158 minutes. One interruption lasting 98 minutes and 2.39 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 234 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Wise 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 719 residential net-metered systems on the Wise Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 9.3 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.

Wise Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Texas.

Wise Electric Cooperative compared with Texas

Texas has 82 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Wise Electric Cooperative is 47th by size and serves about 0.16% of the state's homes. Wise Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 719 of its residential customers use net metering, or 34.8 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 Wise Electric Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Wise Electric CooperativeCooperative20,68215.33
Victoria Electric CooperativeCooperative21,71612.40
Jasper-Newton Electric CooperativeCooperative21,31614.10
Kerrville Public Utility BoardMunicipal20,2839.42
Hamilton County Electric Cooperative AssociationCooperative19,87612.64
Navasota Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative19,86116.26

See every one on the electric companies in Texas page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Wise 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.

Wise Electric Cooperative questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Wise Electric Cooperative?

Wise Electric Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 15.33 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,441 kWh a month and an average bill of $220.96 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Texas average was 15.40 cents.

How many customers does Wise Electric Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 20,682 residential customers for Wise Electric Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates Wise 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 Texas on the Texas state page.

How reliable is Wise Electric Cooperative?

For 2025, Wise Electric Cooperative reported an average of 234 minutes of outage per customer and 2.39 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (other standard). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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