Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 20222. In 2024 it served 11,957 bundled residential customers in Illinois, and its average realised residential price was 16.58 cents per kWh: $25 million of residential revenue divided by 150,579 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop's 2024 average prices were 12.21 cents for commercial customers (1,518 accounts) and 8.93 cents for industrial customers (179 accounts). Industrial customers paid 7.65 cents less per kWh than households, a 46% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Illinois, Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop ranked number 14 of 25 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (11,957) and accounted for 0.34% 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 15.87 cents per kWh, so Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop's customers paid 0.71 cents above the Illinois average (+4.5%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Illinois is 19.89 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 Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop in 11 Illinois counties: Clay, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Marion, Richland, Wabash, Wayne, and White. On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the MISO 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 16.39 cents per kWh for Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop in Illinois across 11,792 residential customers, 0.19 cents lower 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 Illinois by service-territory centroid are Mt Carmel Public Utility Co (32.4 miles away, 19.13 cents), Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (IL) (33.6 miles away, 16.04 cents), Southeastern IL Elec Coop, Inc (44.2 miles away, 14.47 cents), Norris Electric Coop (46.3 miles away, 15.08 cents), and Egyptian Electric Coop Assn (59.3 miles away, 15.53 cents).