South Alabama Electric Cooperative

About South Alabama Electric Cooperative

South Alabama Electric Cooperative supplies electricity to 5 counties and is considered an electric cooperative. There are a total of 17,891 customer accounts receiving service from the provider. These accounts are made up of 5 industrial customers, 776 commercial customers and 17,110 residential accounts. South Alabama Electric Cooperative's customers are charged an average residential electricity rate of 14.34 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 11.59% less than the nationwide average price of 16.22 cents, ranking the provider at 1656th lowest for average electricity rate out of 2885 providers in the country. The provider had total sales and disposition of 410,350 megawatt hours in 2023, of which 95.78% were from retail sales. The electricity sourced by the supplier primarily came from megawatt hours that they acquired by way of the wholesale market. They purchased 410,350 wholesale megawatt hours. In 2023, the company had revenue of $51,466,000 from retail electricity sales. This made up the total of the electricity related revenue for the company.

Customers of the company have an average monthly residential power bill of $171.91. This is 8.44% less than the Alabama average bill of $184.01. The grid operated by the provider has 1.98 outages per customer per year, with outages lasting an average of 322.53 minutes. The nationwide average for other companies is 1.44 outages per customer and 123.49 minutes each outage. The supplier is not associated with any electricity generation facilities and all of the power that they sell to their customers must be purchased from other companies.