Southwest Arkansas E C C Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Southwest Arkansas E C C is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 17671. In 2024 it served 24,879 bundled residential customers in Arkansas (its largest state of 3), and its average realised residential price was 12.96 cents per kWh: $47 million of residential revenue divided by 364,269 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Southwest Arkansas E C C's 2024 average prices were 11.19 cents for commercial customers (3,012 accounts) and 7.51 cents for industrial customers (4 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.45 cents less per kWh than households, a 42% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Arkansas, Southwest Arkansas E C C ranked number 14 of 28 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (24,879) and accounted for 1.96% 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 Southwest Arkansas E C C's customers paid 0.64 cents above the Arkansas average (+5.2%). 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 Southwest Arkansas E C C in 8 Arkansas counties: Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Polk, and Sevier. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Texas (1,087 residential customers at 12.38 cents) and Oklahoma (220 residential customers at 12.24 cents). On the grid side it operates in the Southwest Power Pool and MISO markets, 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 13.93 cents per kWh for Southwest Arkansas E C C in Arkansas across 24,974 residential customers, 0.97 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) (23.1 miles away, 11.69 cents), South Central Ark El Coop, Inc (47.3 miles away, 14.70 cents), Bowie-Cass Electric Coop, Inc (50.3 miles away, 12.56 cents), Southwestern Electric Power Co (55.1 miles away, 13.46 cents), and Ouachita Electric Coop Corp (78 miles away, 13.19 cents).