Pedernales Electric Cooperative

About Pedernales Electric Cooperative

Pedernales Electric Cooperative is an electricity cooperative. The largest county served by Pedernales Electric Cooperative is Travis County, but the company also supplies electricity in 18 counties in the state of Texas. Electricity companies must regularly report their customer counts to government agencies. In the most recent report the provider listed a total of 428,102 customers receiving electricity from the company. Exactly 196 of these customers are industrial accounts, 47,958 are commercial customers and 379,948 are residential accounts. Pedernales Electric Cooperative's average residential electricity rate per kilowatt hour is 11.87 cents per kilowatt hour, which ranks the company 55th out of 204 suppliers in Texas and 780th out of 2892 in the nation. The company had sales of 7,617,641 megawatt hours in 2022 through retail sales. The electricity sourced by Pedernales Electric Cooperative is made up of primarily wholesale purchased megawatt hours, with 8,093,904 megawatt hours procured by the company. In 2022, the provider made $852,078,300 from retail electricity sales.

The national average monthly residential electricity bill is $135.98, while the Pedernales Electric Cooperative average is 7.50% higher at $146.18 per month. Pedernales Electric Cooperative is the 2122nd ranked provider in the United States for average monthly bill amount. Consumers of the provider experience 1.18 power outages on average per year, with outages lasting about 81.46 minutes. The national averages for these data points are 1.45 outages at 171.11 minutes each. Electricity production is not handled in house at the company, as they purchase power at wholesale rates and then resell to their customers.