Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative

About Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative

Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative is a cooperative, which means the company is owned by its customers and they vote in individuals to run the company. There are a total of 8,153 customers receiving service from the supplier. These customer accounts are made up of 119 industrial customers, 810 commercial customers and 7,224 residential accounts. On average, Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative bills their consumers a residential electricity rate of 19.45 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 42.26% more than the nationwide average of 13.67 cents. There were a total of 145,382 megawatt hours sold through retail sales in 2019 by the provider. Electricity generation and wholesale power purchases made up 20.54% and 79.46%, respectively, of all electricity sourced by the company. Power facilities owned by the company generated 31,553 megawatt hours and an additional 122,064 were procured on wholesale channels. In 2019, they made a total of $26,025,000 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had 95.50% of their revenue coming from retail sales to end users.

The average monthly residential electricity bill for a consumer of Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative is $136.78 per month, while the national average is $120.98. Consumers of the provider pay 13.07% more compared to the rest of the United States. The company does not have ownership in any electricity plants and all of the electricity that they sell to their consumers must be purchased from other providers.