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

Southwest Louisiana E M C is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 17684. In 2024 it served 108,368 bundled residential customers in Louisiana, and its average realised residential price was 11.55 cents per kWh: $207 million of residential revenue divided by 1.79 million MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Southwest Louisiana E M C's 2024 average prices were 12.42 cents for commercial customers (8,953 accounts) and 9.65 cents for industrial customers (25 accounts). Industrial customers paid 1.90 cents less per kWh than households, a 16% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Louisiana, Southwest Louisiana E M C ranked number 6 of 21 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (108,368) and accounted for 5.78% 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 11.73 cents per kWh, so Southwest Louisiana E M C's customers paid 0.18 cents below the Louisiana average (-1.5%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Louisiana is 13.49 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 Louisiana E M C in 9 Louisiana counties: Acadia, Avoyelles, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St Landry, St Martin, and Vermilion. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported transmission and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: MISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 11.57 cents per kWh for Southwest Louisiana E M C in Louisiana across 109,628 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 Louisiana by service-territory centroid are City of Lafayette (LA) (8.7 miles away, 10.12 cents), Cleco Power LLC (39.1 miles away, 12.33 cents), Jefferson Davis Elec Coop, Inc (42.1 miles away, 14.05 cents), Pointe Coupee Elec Member Corp (48.6 miles away, 13.42 cents), and Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc (52.5 miles away, 13.70 cents).