Washington-St Tammany Electric Cooperative

About Washington-St Tammany Electric Cooperative

Washington-St Tammany Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative with headquarters in Franklinton, Louisiana and providing power to customers in 7 cities in Louisiana including cities such as Franklinton, Abita Springs, Pearl River, Folsom, and Sun. At the moment the company provides electricity to residential and commercial customer accounts, with a total of 4,592 commercial customer accounts and 52,153 residential customer accounts recently reported to be on their books. Washington-St Tammany Electric Cooperative averages 10.87 cents per kilowatt hour billed to their patrons for residential electricity. This is 32.99% lower than the national average rate of 16.22 cents. In 2023 the company sold 1,027,802 megawatt hours via retail sales to end users. The electricity sourced by the company is made up primarily of megawatt hours they acquired by way of the wholesale market. Of the electricity sourced by the company, whole purchased made up 100.00%. Their total revenue in 2023 from electricity activities was $112,392,800, with 97.62% coming from retail sales to end users.

The average residential electric bill for a consumer of Washington-St Tammany Electric Cooperative is $154.74 per month, while the state average is $144.88. Electricity generation is not part of the Washington-St Tammany Electric Cooperative business model, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other companies and then resell to their consumers. Customers of the company experience 1.31 power outages a year with outages lasting on average 386.6 minutes.