Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 65261|Arizona|Bundled
In 2024, Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA)'s residential customers paid an average of 14.25 cents per kWh: $6.7 million of revenue over 47,079 MWh of sales across 2,682 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 14.25c figure is calculated
14.25c/kWh = $6,709k revenue / 47,079 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA) 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 $143 before taxes.
About Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA)'s 2024 electricity prices
Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA) is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 65261. In 2024 it served 2,682 bundled residential customers in Arizona, and its average realised residential price was 14.25 cents per kWh: $6.7 million of residential revenue divided by 47,079 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA)'s 2024 average prices were 12.54 cents for commercial customers (751 accounts).
Within Arizona, Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA) ranked number 15 of 21 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (2,682) and accounted for 0.12% 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 14.91 cents per kWh, so Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA)'s customers paid 0.66 cents below the Arizona average (-4.4%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Arizona is 15.18 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 Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA) in 2 Arizona counties: Maricopa and Pinal. On the grid side it operates in the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported buying transmission and buying distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: WALC.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.27 cents per kWh for Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA) in Arizona across 2,707 residential customers, 0.02 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 Arizona by service-territory centroid are Salt River Project (26.4 miles away, 13.46 cents), City of Mesa (AZ) (35.9 miles away, 16.93 cents), Electrical Dist No2 Pinal County (36 miles away, 13.26 cents), Electrical Dist No3 Pinal County (36 miles away, 13.93 cents), and USBIA-San Carlos Project (39.2 miles away, 19.49 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 2,682 | 47,079 | 6,709 | 14.25 |
| Commercial | 751 | 231,658 | 29,047 | 12.54 |
Counties served in Arizona (2)
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 Arizona: 14.27c/kWh (+0.02c vs 2024 final), 2,707 residential customers; commercial 12.56c. 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 Arizona
- EIA utility number
- 65261
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Arizona
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (AZ, price basis)
- 2,682
- Residential accounts served (AZ)
- 2,682
- All accounts, all sectors (AZ)
- 3,433
- Residential price, 2024
- 14.25 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 12.54 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 47,079 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $6.7 million
- Rank in Arizona by residential accounts served
- 15 of 21
- Share of Arizona residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.12%
- Arizona average, 2024
- 14.91 c/kWh
- Counties served (AZ)
- 2
- RTO / ISO
- Southwest Power Pool
- Balancing authority
- WALC
- Reported activities
- Buying Transmission, Buying Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 14.27 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- +0.02 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].