Access Energy Coop Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Access Energy Coop is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 16611. In 2024 it served 8,850 bundled residential customers in Iowa, and its average realised residential price was 14.95 cents per kWh: $17 million of residential revenue divided by 112,566 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Access Energy Coop's 2024 average prices were 12.54 cents for commercial customers (191 accounts) and 6.87 cents for industrial customers (26 accounts). Industrial customers paid 8.08 cents less per kWh than households, a 54% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Iowa, Access Energy Coop ranked number 12 of 24 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (8,850) and accounted for 0.78% 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 13.40 cents per kWh, so Access Energy Coop's customers paid 1.55 cents above the Iowa average (+11.6%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Iowa is 15.93 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 Access Energy Coop in 10 Iowa counties: Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren, Wapello, and Washington. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: AECI.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.81 cents per kWh for Access Energy Coop in Iowa across 8,890 residential customers, 0.14 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 Iowa by service-territory centroid are Board of Water Electric & Communications (49.2 miles away, 12.63 cents), Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop (53.8 miles away, 13.56 cents), Linn County REC (63.7 miles away, 14.23 cents), East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop (91.4 miles away, 13.28 cents), and Consumers Energy Coop (IA) (92.4 miles away, 15.00 cents).