Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative

About Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative

Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative operates in 18 cities throughout Texas 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 49,269 customers signed up for their services. Exactly 20 of these customers are industrial accounts, 6,014 are commercial customers and 43,235 are residential accounts. The average residential electricity rate for patrons of Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative is roughly 14.49 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 0.06% more than the average Texas price of 14.48 cents and 8.06% lower than the national average of 15.76. There were a total of 957,156 megawatt hours sold via retail sales in 2022 by the supplier. The electricity sourced by Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative is made up of primarily wholesale purchased megawatt hours, with 1,032,603 purchased by the company. In 2022, the supplier made 99.30% of their revenue from retail electricity sales. Their revenue from electricity related activities was $128,077,000.

The Texas average monthly residential electric bill is $164.95, while the Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative average is 11.31% higher at $180.26 per month. Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative ranks 162nd in the state for average monthly bill amount. 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 4.43 outages per customer a year, with outages lasting roughly 702 minutes. The national average for other suppliers is 1.45 outages per consumer and 171.11 minutes each outage.