Columbus Light and Water

About Columbus Light and Water

Columbus Light and Water is a municipally owned organization supplying electricity in Columbus, Mississippi. At the time of the most recent government reports, the supplier disclosed a total of 12,952 electricity customers. This total is made up of 3 industrial accounts, 3,803 commercial customers and 9,146 residential accounts. Columbus Light and Water's consumers are charged an average residential electricity rate of 12.28 cents per kilowatt hour. Fortunately for their consumers, this price is below both the Mississippi and the nationwide average prices of 13.35 and 16.13 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. Columbus Light and Water had total sales and disposition of 343,594 megawatt hours in 2023, of which 96.66% were via sales to end users. During the same timeframe, Columbus Light and Water acquired 343,594 megawatt hours through the wholesale market. Their revenue for 2023 from electricity related activities was $39,941,700, with 96.86% coming from retail sales to end users.

Customers of the supplier pay an average monthly residential electricity bill of $134.07. This is 5.08% lower than the US average bill of $141.25. The electricity grid owned by the provider has an average of 0.77 outages per consumer a year, with outages lasting an average of 67.46 minutes. The US average for other providers is 1.44 outages per consumer and approximately 123.49 minutes each outage. The supplier is not associated with any power facilities and all of the power that they sell to their customers must be purchased wholesale from other companies.