Nueces Electric Cooperative

About Nueces Electric Cooperative

Nueces Electric Cooperative provides electricity for 7 cities in the state including cities like Robstown, Ben Bolt CDP, Ricardo CDP, Coyote Acres CDP, and South La Paloma CDP. The company is an electricity cooperative. A total of 20,206 customers (90.08% residential customers, 9.76% commercial customers and 0.16% industrial properties) are provided electricity by the company. Consumers of Nueces Electric Cooperative are billed an average residential electricity price of 13.25 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 14.35% below Texas' average rate of 15.47 cents. Of the 824,900 megawatt hours the provider sold and dispossessed, 99.81% were from sales to end users. The electricity they sourced consisted of megawatt hours that they purchased by way of the wholesale electricity market. They purchased 824,900 megawatt hours on the wholesale market. In 2023, they made a total of $98,570,500 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had 93.91% of their revenue coming from retail sales to end users.

The average residential power bill for a consumer of Nueces Electric Cooperative is $179.8 per month. The electricity grid owned by the supplier experiences an average of 1.35 outages per customer each year, with outages lasting roughly 159.96 minutes. The nationwide average for other companies is 1.44 outages per consumer and 123.49 minutes per outage. The company currently does not generate any of the electricity that they sell. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale rates and then resell it to end customers.