Dixie Electric Cooperative

About Dixie Electric Cooperative

Dixie Electric Cooperative provides electricity to 7 counties in the state including counties like Montgomery County, Lee County, Tallapoosa County, Pike County, and Macon County. The company is an electric cooperative. There are 27,002 customer accounts receiving electricity from the supplier. These customer accounts are made up of 0.10% industrial customers, 17.59% commercial properties and 82.30% residential customers. Customers of Dixie Electric Cooperative spend, on average, 14.78 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity, which is, fortunately, 8.90% below the average national rate of 16.22 cents. There were a total of 564,071 megawatt hours sold through retail sales in 2023 by the supplier. Wholesale power purchases made up 100.00% of the total electricity sourced by the company and 583,970 megawatt hours were acquired via the wholesale market. In 2023, the provider earned 98.86% of their revenue from retail electricity sales to end users.

The state average monthly residential electric bill is $184.01, while the Dixie Electric Cooperative average is 0.22% more at $183.69 per month. Dixie Electric Cooperative is the 51st ranked provider in the state for average monthly bill amount. The power grid owned by the provider has an average of 1.41 outages per consumer per year, with outages lasting roughly 180.18 minutes. The US average for other companies is 1.44 outages per consumer and 123.49 minutes each outage. The company currently does not generate any of the electricity that they sell. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale rates from other suppliers and then resell it to end consumers.