Big Sandy RECC

About Big Sandy RECC

Big Sandy RECC provides electricity for 5 counties in Kentucky. The entity is an electric cooperative. The company last reported a total of 12,315 customers. Exactly 16 of them are industrial properties, 1,049 are commercial customers and 11,250 are residential accounts. Big Sandy RECC's average residential electricity rate per kilowatt hour is 13.89 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 9.91% more than the average state rate of 12.64 cents. They sold 195,085 megawatt hours in 2023 via retail accounts. During the same timeframe, Big Sandy RECC purchased 207,212 megawatt hours through wholesale channels. In 2023, the supplier made a total of $26,562,000 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had 96.65% of their revenue coming from retail sales to end users.

The nationwide average monthly residential power bill is $138.7, while the Big Sandy RECC average is 23.42% more at $171.18 per month. Big Sandy RECC is the 2493rd ranked provider in the US for average monthly bill amount. The power grid operated by the company has an average of 3.82 outages per consumer a year, with outages lasting on average 882.83 minutes. The national average for other companies is 1.44 outages per consumer and approximately 123.49 minutes an outage. The company does not have ownership in any electricity facilities and all of the megawatt hours that they sell to their customers must be purchased wholesale from other suppliers.