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South Central Ark El Coop, Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Cooperative|EIA utility 17540|Arkansas|Bundled

In 2024, South Central Ark El Coop, Inc's residential customers paid an average of 14.70 cents per kWh: $16 million of revenue over 108,938 MWh of sales across 9,410 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.

Residential 2024
14.70¢
per kWh, bundled
vs AR avg 2024
+19.3%
state 12.32c
Bundled res. customers
9,410
10,675 all sectors
Rank in AR by res. accounts
#22 of 28
0.6% of state residential MWh

How the 14.70c figure is calculated

14.70c/kWh = $16,012k revenue / 108,938 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything South Central Ark El Coop, Inc 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 $147 before taxes.

About South Central Ark El Coop, Inc's 2024 electricity prices

South Central Ark El Coop, Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 17540. In 2024 it served 9,410 bundled residential customers in Arkansas, and its average realised residential price was 14.70 cents per kWh: $16 million of residential revenue divided by 108,938 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, South Central Ark El Coop, Inc's 2024 average prices were 14.99 cents for commercial customers (1,247 accounts) and 7.80 cents for industrial customers (18 accounts). Industrial customers paid 6.90 cents less per kWh than households, a 47% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Arkansas, South Central Ark El Coop, Inc ranked number 22 of 28 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (9,410) and accounted for 0.59% 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 12.32 cents per kWh, so South Central Ark El Coop, Inc's customers paid 2.38 cents above the Arkansas average (+19.3%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Arkansas is 14.12 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 South Central Ark El Coop, Inc in 8 Arkansas counties: Clark, Dallas, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Montgomery, Nevada, and Pike. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: MISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 16.05 cents per kWh for South Central Ark El Coop, Inc in Arkansas across 9,447 residential customers, 1.35 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 Arkansas by service-territory centroid are City of Hope (AR) (27.9 miles away, 11.69 cents), Southwest Arkansas E C C (47.3 miles away, 12.96 cents), Ouachita Electric Coop Corp (48.3 miles away, 13.19 cents), City of Benton (AR) (57 miles away, 10.30 cents), and City of North Little Rock (AR) (78 miles away, 12.23 cents).

2024 sales by sector in Arkansas (bundled service)
SectorCustomersSales (MWh)Revenue ($k)Avg c/kWh
Residential9,410108,93816,01214.70
Commercial1,24731,1774,67214.99
Industrial18109,9458,5717.80

Counties served in Arkansas (8)

ClarkDallasHempsteadHot SpringHowardMontgomeryNevadaPike

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 Arkansas: 16.05c/kWh (+1.35c vs 2024 final), 9,447 residential customers; commercial 16.37c; industrial 9.11c. 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 Arkansas

City of Hope (AR)Municipal, 27.9 mi between territory centroids
5,782 res. accounts 11.69c
Southwest Arkansas E C CCooperative, 47.3 mi between territory centroids
26,186 res. accounts 12.96c
Ouachita Electric Coop CorpCooperative, 48.3 mi between territory centroids
8,391 res. accounts 13.19c
City of Benton (AR)Municipal, 57 mi between territory centroids
12,972 res. accounts 10.30c
City of North Little Rock (AR)Municipal, 78 mi between territory centroids
34,984 res. accounts 12.23c
EIA-861 facts, 2024
EIA utility number
17540
Ownership type
Cooperative
Data year
2024 final (EIA-861)
Primary state
Arkansas
Service type
Bundled (Part A)
Bundled residential customers (AR, price basis)
9,410
Residential accounts served (AR)
9,410
All accounts, all sectors (AR)
10,675
Residential price, 2024
14.70 c/kWh
Commercial price, 2024
14.99 c/kWh
Industrial price, 2024
7.80 c/kWh
Residential sales
108,938 MWh
Residential revenue
$16 million
Rank in Arkansas by residential accounts served
22 of 28
Share of Arkansas residential sales (MWh, not customers)
0.59%
Arkansas average, 2024
12.32 c/kWh
Counties served (AR)
8
NERC region
SERC
RTO / ISO
Southwest Power Pool
Balancing authority
MISO
Reported activities
Distribution
2025 early release (preliminary)
16.05 c/kWh
Change vs 2024 final
+1.35 c/kWh
Registry status
Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
Arkansas today
Residential (June 2026)14.12c
Commercial11.54c
Industrial7.08c
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Energy cost at 14.70c
500 kWh$73.50
750 kWh$110.25
1,000 kWh$147.00
1,500 kWh$220.50

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Source and method

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].