Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative

About Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative

Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative headquartered in Gonzales, Texas and serving customers in 19 cities in Texas. A total of 99,969 customers (1,134 industrial accounts, 9,738 commercial customer accounts and 89,097 residential properties) receive electricity from the supplier. Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative has an average residential electricity price of 13.08 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 16.66% less than the national average rate of 15.70 cents, resulting in the supplier ranking 1199th out of 2885 companies in the US for best average electricity rate. In 2023 they had retail sales of 2,850,941 megawatt hours. The electricity sourced by the company is made up primarily of megawatt hours they procured by way of wholesale channels. This category makes up 100.00% of the total electricity sourced by the company. The revenue for Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative for 2023 from electricity sales was $308,870,800, with 92.57% coming from retail sales to end users.

The average residential electric bill for a customer of Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative is $156.36 per month, while the national average is $138.7. The power grid operated by the supplier has 1.03 outages per consumer a year, with outages lasting roughly 64.58 minutes. The national average for other providers is 1.44 outages per customer and 123.49 minutes each outage. Electricity production is not part of the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative business plan, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other suppliers to then be resold to their customers.