Decatur Utilities Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Municipal|EIA utility 4958|Alabama|Bundled
In 2024, Decatur Utilities' residential customers paid an average of 11.15 cents per kWh: $36 million of revenue over 320,833 MWh of sales across 22,820 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 11.15c figure is calculated
11.15c/kWh = $35,773k revenue / 320,833 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Decatur Utilities billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $112 before taxes.
About Decatur Utilities' 2024 electricity prices
Decatur Utilities is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 4958. In 2024 it served 22,820 bundled residential customers in Alabama, and its average realised residential price was 11.15 cents per kWh: $36 million of residential revenue divided by 320,833 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Decatur Utilities' 2024 average prices were 11.01 cents for commercial customers (4,104 accounts) and 5.89 cents for industrial customers (11 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.26 cents less per kWh than households, a 47% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Alabama, Decatur Utilities ranked number 14 of 46 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (22,820) and accounted for 0.98% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 15.18 cents per kWh, so Decatur Utilities' customers paid 4.03 cents below the Alabama average (-26.5%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Alabama is 16.40 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.
EIA's service-territory file places Decatur Utilities in 1 Alabama county: Morgan. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: TVA.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 12.14 cents per kWh for Decatur Utilities in Alabama across 22,830 residential customers, 0.99 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.
The nearest other utilities in Alabama by service-territory centroid are City of Hartselle (0 miles away, 12.14 cents), Joe Wheeler Elec Member Corp (13.8 miles away, 14.49 cents), Cullman Electric Coop, Inc (17.3 miles away, 13.26 cents), Arab Electric Coop Inc (21.6 miles away, 11.96 cents), and Cullman Power Board (22.3 miles away, 12.64 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 22,820 | 320,833 | 35,773 | 11.15 |
| Commercial | 4,104 | 304,667 | 33,558 | 11.01 |
| Industrial | 11 | 532,532 | 31,357 | 5.89 |
Counties served in Alabama (1)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Alabama: 12.14c/kWh (+0.99c vs 2024 final), 22,830 residential customers; commercial 11.98c; industrial 6.39c. Published 4 August 2026. EIA marks this file "not fully edited, use with caution"; the 2024 final figures above remain the reference.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Alabama
- EIA utility number
- 4958
- Ownership type
- Municipal
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Alabama
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (AL, price basis)
- 22,820
- Residential accounts served (AL)
- 22,820
- All accounts, all sectors (AL)
- 26,935
- Residential price, 2024
- 11.15 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 11.01 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 5.89 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 320,833 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $36 million
- Rank in Alabama by residential accounts served
- 14 of 46
- Share of Alabama residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.98%
- Alabama average, 2024
- 15.18 c/kWh
- Counties served (AL)
- 1
- NERC region
- SERC
- Balancing authority
- TVA
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 12.14 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- +0.99 c/kWh
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].