Trico Electric Cooperative

About Trico Electric Cooperative

Trico Electric Cooperative operates in 3 cities throughout Arizona and is considered an electricity cooperative. Electricity companies must regularly report the number of customers they have to government agencies. In the most recent report the company reported 54,644 customers signed up for their services. Exactly 31 of these customers are industrial accounts, 2,345 are commercial customers and 52,268 are residential accounts. The average residential electricity rate for patrons of Trico Electric Cooperative is roughly 14.31 cents per kilowatt hour, which is, luckily, 11.74% lower than the average national price of 16.22 cents. They sold 10,252 megawatt hours through wholesale channels to other electricity providers in 2023. The electricity generated in the company's power plants made up 383 of the megawatt hours sourced by the company and the purchase of wholesale electricity made up an additional 896,690. In 2023, the company made a total of $118,155,200 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had 97.71% of their revenue coming from retail sales to end users and 0.65% from wholesale electricity sales.

The Arizona average monthly residential electric bill is $154.63, while the Trico Electric Cooperative average is 9.29% less at $141.31 per month. This is the 23rd lowest average monthly bill amount for a supplier in Arizona. The provider is not associated with any electricity facilities and all of the megawatt hours that they sell to their customers must be purchased from other providers. The electricity grid managed by the provider experiences an average of 0.65 outages per customer a year, with outages lasting roughly 81.9 minutes. The national average for other suppliers is 1.44 outages per consumer and 123.49 minutes each outage.