Eastern Maine Electric Coop Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Eastern Maine Electric Coop is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 5609. In 2024 it served 10,803 bundled residential customers in Maine, and its average realised residential price was 17.06 cents per kWh: $11 million of residential revenue divided by 65,257 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Eastern Maine Electric Coop's 2024 average prices were 15.59 cents for commercial customers (2,424 accounts) and 13.24 cents for industrial customers (30 accounts). Industrial customers paid 3.82 cents less per kWh than households, a 22% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Maine, Eastern Maine Electric Coop ranked number 3 of 5 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (10,803) and accounted for 1.33% 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 24.29 cents per kWh, so Eastern Maine Electric Coop's customers paid 7.23 cents below the Maine average (-29.8%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Maine is 29.59 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 Eastern Maine Electric Coop in 3 Maine counties: Aroostook, Penobscot, and Washington. On the grid side it operates in the NPCC NERC region, and reported transmission, buying transmission, distribution, and retail marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: NBSO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 19.36 cents per kWh for Eastern Maine Electric Coop in Maine across 10,808 residential customers, 2.30 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 Maine by service-territory centroid are Versant Power (27.9 miles away, 28.08 cents), Houlton Water Company (71.7 miles away, 11.95 cents), Town of Madison (ME) (81.3 miles away, 15.16 cents), and Central Maine Power Co (106.6 miles away, 23.43 cents). Other Maine utilities of similar size include MP2 Energy LLC (39,395 residential accounts served, 14.65 cents).