Coosa Valley Electric Coop

About Coosa Valley Electric Coop

Coosa Valley Electric Coop is an electric cooperative located in Talladega, Alabama and providing electricity to customers in 5 counties in Alabama such as the counties of Shelby County, Calhoun County, St. Clair County, Talladega County, and Clay County. There are 15,205 residential customers, 2,431 commercial accounts and 85 industrial customer accounts who are receiving electricity from the company. Coosa Valley Electric Coop bills their patrons a residential electricity rate of 14.92 cents per kilowatt hour on average, which is 2.12% below Alabama's average price of 15.25 cents and 5.30% less than the US average of 15.76 cents. They sold 317,595 megawatt hours through retail sales in 2022. Of the megawatt hours they sourced, 337,159 megawatt hours were acquired on wholesale channels. Their revenue in 2022 from electricity related activities was $47,416,000, with $44,703,000 from retail sales to end users.

The Alabama average monthly residential electricity bill is $171.78, while the Coosa Valley Electric Coop average is 3.21% higher at $176.13 per month. Coosa Valley Electric Coop ranks 56th in the state for average monthly bill total. The supplier's consumers are faced with an average of 1.43 power outages per customer a year. These outages are on average 145.65 minutes, while the national average is 1.45 outages per consumer and 171.11 minutes each outage. The provider does not have ownership in any electricity generation facilities and all of the megawatt hours that they sell to their customers must be purchased wholesale from other providers.