Southern Rivers Energy

About Southern Rivers Energy

Southern Rivers Energy is an electric cooperative. The largest county serviced by Southern Rivers Energy is Bibb County, but the company also operates in in 8 counties in the state of Georgia. The supplier has a total of 21,653 customers. There are 20,498 residential customer accounts, 1,145 commercial customers and 10 industrial customer accounts. Southern Rivers Energy's consumers pay an average residential electricity rate of 15.33 cents per kilowatt hour, which ranks the company 80th out of 96 companies in Georgia and 2130th out of 2892 in the country. In 2022 the company sold 361,155 megawatt hours by way of retail sales to end users. During the same timeframe, Southern Rivers Energy purchased 376,907 megawatt hours through wholesale channels. The revenue for Southern Rivers Energy for 2022 from electricity sales was $53,748,000, with $52,069,000 coming from retail sales to end users.

The national average monthly residential power bill is $136.59, while the Southern Rivers Energy average is 41.56% more at $193.36 per month. Southern Rivers Energy ranks 2732nd in the US for average monthly bill amount. Electricity generation is not handled in house at the company, as they purchase power at wholesale rates from other suppliers and then resell to their consumers. The power grid owned by the company experiences 3.58 outages per consumer a year, with outages lasting roughly 294.12 minutes. The nationwide average for other companies is 1.45 outages per customer and approximately 171.11 minutes an outage.