Empire District Electric Co Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Investor Owned|EIA utility 5860|Missouri + 3 more|Bundled
In 2024, Empire District Electric Co's residential customers paid an average of 14.99 cents per kWh: $259 million of revenue over 1.73 million MWh of sales across 142,537 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 14.99c figure is calculated
14.99c/kWh = $258,851k revenue / 1,727,154 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Empire District Electric Co billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $150 before taxes.
About Empire District Electric Co's 2024 electricity prices
Empire District Electric Co is an investor-owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 5860. In 2024 it served 142,537 bundled residential customers in Missouri (its largest state of 4), and its average realised residential price was 14.99 cents per kWh: $259 million of residential revenue divided by 1.73 million MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Empire District Electric Co's 2024 average prices were 12.85 cents for commercial customers (25,159 accounts) and 9.62 cents for industrial customers (280 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.37 cents less per kWh than households, a 36% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Missouri, Empire District Electric Co ranked number 4 of 45 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (142,537) and accounted for 4.90% 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 12.91 cents per kWh, so Empire District Electric Co's customers paid 2.08 cents above the Missouri average (+16.1%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Missouri is 16.22 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 Empire District Electric Co in 17 Missouri counties: Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, and Newton, and 5 more. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Kansas (8,412 residential customers at 13.34 cents), Arkansas (4,813 residential customers at 13.39 cents), and Oklahoma (3,901 residential customers at 14.61 cents). On the grid side it operates in the SPP NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, and wholesale marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: SWPP.
Empire District Electric Co is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.
The nearest other utilities in Missouri by service-territory centroid are Ozark Electric Coop Inc (MO) (13.5 miles away, 14.07 cents), City of Monett (MO) (17.8 miles away, 13.65 cents), New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc (17.9 miles away, 12.63 cents), City of Carthage (MO) (20.6 miles away, 14.06 cents), and City Utilities of Springfield (MO) (35.8 miles away, 11.47 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 142,537 | 1,727,154 | 258,851 | 14.99 |
| Commercial | 25,159 | 1,543,586 | 198,306 | 12.85 |
| Industrial | 280 | 949,398 | 91,308 | 9.62 |
Counties served in Missouri (17)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
| Kansas Bundled | 8,412 res. accounts | 13.34c | #12 of 22 |
| Arkansas Bundled | 4,813 res. accounts | 13.39c | #26 of 28 |
| Oklahoma Bundled | 3,901 res. accounts | 14.61c | #31 of 35 |
Nearby and comparable utilities in Missouri
- EIA utility number
- 5860
- Ownership type
- Investor Owned
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Missouri
- States with retail sales
- MO, KS, AR, OK
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (MO, price basis)
- 142,537
- Residential accounts served (MO)
- 142,537
- All accounts, all sectors (MO)
- 167,976
- Residential price, 2024
- 14.99 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 12.85 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 9.62 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 1.73 million MWh
- Residential revenue
- $259 million
- Rank in Missouri by residential accounts served
- 4 of 45
- Share of Missouri residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 4.90%
- Missouri average, 2024
- 12.91 c/kWh
- Counties served (MO)
- 17
- NERC region
- SPP
- RTO / ISO
- Southwest Power Pool
- Balancing authority
- SWPP
- Reported activities
- Generation, Transmission, Buying Transmission, Distribution, Wholesale Marketing
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].