Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative

About Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative

Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative provides electricity for 5 counties in Oregon such as the counties of Umatilla County, Morrow County, Gilliam County, Sherman County, and Wheeler County. The company is an electricity cooperative. With 3,978 total consumers, the provider supplies electricity to 250 industrial locations, 536 commercial locations and 3,192 residential customer accounts. Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative charges their patrons a residential electricity rate of 10.85 cents per kilowatt hour on average. This is 30.60% below the US average rate of 15.64 cents, which ranks the supplier 563rd out of 2893 suppliers in the nation for lowest average electricity price. The provider sold 110,038 megawatt hours by way of retail sales in 2019. The electricity sourced by the supplier primarily came from megawatt hours that they procured on the wholesale electricity market. They purchased 120,923 wholesale megawatt hours. The revenue for Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative for 2019 from electricity sales was $9,413,200, with $9,203,600 from retail sales to end users.

The average monthly residential power bill for a consumer of Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative is $133.74 per month. Customers of the company pay 12.55% more compared to the rest of the state. The supplier does not have ownership in any electricity generation facilities and all of the megawatt hours that they sell to their consumers must be purchased wholesale from other providers.