Jefferson Davis Electric

About Jefferson Davis Electric

Jefferson Davis Electric is an electric cooperative headquartered in Jennings, Louisiana and serving customers in 3 counties in Louisiana including counties such as Calcasieu Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, and Cameron Parish. The supplier has 59 industrial customer accounts, 8,718 residential customer accounts and 1,480 commercial customers whom they provide electricity services to. Jefferson Davis Electric has an average residential electricity rate of 14.07 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 10.02% below the national average price of 15.64 cents. This ranks the provider 1957th out of 2893 suppliers in the country for lowest average electricity price. They had total sales and disposition of 239,642 megawatt hours in 2022, of which 99.94% were via retail sales. The electricity sourced by Jefferson Davis Electric is made up of multiple sources including megawatt hours they produce in their power plants and supplementary megawatt hours acquired on wholesale channels. Of the electricity sourced these two categories comprise 20.61% and 79.39%, respectively. The supplier made $30,438,000 in total revenue in 2022 through retail electricity sales alone.

The average residential power bill for a customer of Jefferson Davis Electric is $177.58 per month. Consumers of the provider are faced with 1.4 electrical outages a year with outages lasting an average of 9.8 minutes. The supplier currently does not generate any of the electricity that they sell. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale prices and then resell it at a higher rate to end customers.