4-County Electric Power Association

About 4-County Electric Power Association

4-County Electric Power Association is an electric cooperative serving the state of Mississippi, including cities like Starkville, Columbus, West Point, New Hope CDP, and Mississippi State CDP. At the moment, there are 51,111 customers of the provider. About 0.02% of them are industrial accounts, 19.92% are commercial customer accounts and 80.06% are residential customers. Consumers of 4-County Electric Power Association purchase electricity for, on average, 12.74 cents per kilowatt hour. Fortunately for their consumers, this rate is lower than both the Mississippi and nationwide average rates of 13.55 and 15.76 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. Of the 1,155,049 megawatt hours the provider sold and dispossessed, 94.12% were from retail sales. The electricity sourced by 4-County Electric Power Association is made up primarily of megawatt hours they acquired by way of wholesale channels. Of the total electricity sourced whole purchased made up 100.00%. Their revenue in 2022 from electricity activities was $142,316,300, with $133,974,000 from retail sales to end users.

The Mississippi average monthly residential electric bill is $162.14, while the 4-County Electric Power Association average is 7.13% more at $152.35 per month. 4-County Electric Power Association is the 18th ranked company in the state for average monthly bill amount. The power grid managed by the supplier has an average of 2.1 outages per customer a year, with outages lasting on average 145 minutes. The US average for other companies is 1.45 outages per consumer and around 171.11 minutes each outage. The company currently does not produce their own electricity. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale rates and then resell it at a higher rate to end users.