Oconto Electric Cooperative

About Oconto Electric Cooperative

Oconto Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative located in Oconto Falls, Wisconsin and providing electricity to customers in 4 counties in Wisconsin such as the counties of Marinette County, Shawano County, Oconto County, and Menominee County. There are 9,993 residential customers, 502 commercial accounts and 18 industrial customer accounts who are receiving electricity from the company. Oconto Electric Cooperative bills their patrons a residential electricity rate of 15.92 cents per kilowatt hour on average, which is 9.45% below Wisconsin's average price of 17.58 cents and 1.85% less than the US average of 16.22 cents. They sold 114,259 megawatt hours through retail sales in 2019. Of the megawatt hours they sourced, 7,384 of them were produced by power plants owned by Oconto Electric Cooperative and 116,772 megawatt hours were procured via wholesale channels. In 2019, the supplier had revenue of $15,709,000 from retail electricity sales to end users. Their total revenue from all electricity related activities was $15,788,800.

The Wisconsin average monthly residential electricity bill is $115.22, while the Oconto Electric Cooperative average is 19.36% higher at $142.98 per month. Oconto Electric Cooperative ranks 107th in the state for average monthly bill total. Electricity production facilities owned by Oconto Electric Cooperative generate 5,352 megawatt hours, which is the 538th highest total in the US out of 3530 companies. The provider currently does not generate any of the electricity that they sell. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale prices from other companies and then resell it to end customers. They rank 1st out of the 3530 providers we track in the country for their ratio of renewable versus non-renewable fuel sources used.