Chugach Electric

About Chugach Electric

Chugach Electric is an electric cooperative serving Whittier, Alaska and other areas of Anchorage Municipality. At the time of the most recent government reports, the supplier showed a total of 113,261 electricity customers being supplied electricity by the company. This total is made up of 96,905 residential accounts, 16,350 commercial customer accounts and 6 industrial customer accounts. Chugach Electric's average residential electricity price per kilowatt hour is 20.96 cents per kilowatt hour. This is, fortunately for their customers, 11.17% less than the state's average price of 23.60 cents. They sold 1,902,625 megawatt hours in 2022 by way of traditional retail accounts. The electricity sourced by the company came from a blend of electricity production from electricity facilities owned by Chugach Electric and additional megawatt hours that they procured via the wholesale market. The revenue for the company in 2022 from electricity sales was $354,046,200, with $24,849,500 coming from wholesale electricity sales and $322,098,300 from retail sales to end users.

The national average monthly residential electric bill is $132.69, while the Chugach Electric average is 19.24% less at $107.17 per month. This is the 1035th lowest average monthly bill amount for a supplier in the country. Chugach Electric is the 206th largest provider out of 3517 suppliers in the nation based on total customer count. Chugach Electric produces 2,256,449.02 megawatt hours from their electricity facilities, ranking them as the 211th highest producer of electricity in the country out of 3517 companies. The supplier's electricity production facilities produce 2,081,794.73 megawatt hours using natural gas as the fuel source. This amount ranks them highest out of 54 in the state for total natural gas generation.