Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 2502|Ohio|Bundled
In 2024, Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc's residential customers paid an average of 19.90 cents per kWh: $41 million of revenue over 205,052 MWh of sales across 16,349 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 19.90c figure is calculated
19.90c/kWh = $40,809k revenue / 205,052 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc 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 $199 before taxes.
About Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc's 2024 electricity prices
Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 2502. In 2024 it served 16,349 bundled residential customers in Ohio, and its average realised residential price was 19.90 cents per kWh: $41 million of residential revenue divided by 205,052 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc's 2024 average prices were 22.99 cents for commercial customers (2,265 accounts) and 16.26 cents for industrial customers (88 accounts). Industrial customers paid 3.64 cents less per kWh than households, a 18% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Ohio, Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc ranked number 13 of 37 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (16,349) and accounted for 0.39% 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 15.99 cents per kWh, so Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc's customers paid 3.91 cents above the Ohio average (+24.5%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Ohio is 19.19 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 Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc in 9 Ohio counties: Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Pike, Ross, Scioto, and Vinton. On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.
Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc 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 Ohio by service-territory centroid are South Central Power Company (40.1 miles away, 14.87 cents), Duke Energy Ohio Inc (59.2 miles away, 15.00 cents), City of Columbus (OH) (68.7 miles away, 11.32 cents), City of Westerville (OH) (78.8 miles away, 13.19 cents), and Guernsey-Muskingum El Coop Inc (80.8 miles away, 18.00 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 16,349 | 205,052 | 40,809 | 19.90 |
| Commercial | 2,265 | 18,933 | 4,353 | 22.99 |
| Industrial | 88 | 9,523 | 1,548 | 16.26 |
Counties served in Ohio (9)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Ohio
- EIA utility number
- 2502
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Ohio
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (OH, price basis)
- 16,349
- Residential accounts served (OH)
- 16,349
- All accounts, all sectors (OH)
- 18,702
- Residential price, 2024
- 19.90 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 22.99 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 16.26 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 205,052 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $41 million
- Rank in Ohio by residential accounts served
- 13 of 37
- Share of Ohio residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.39%
- Ohio average, 2024
- 15.99 c/kWh
- Counties served (OH)
- 9
- NERC region
- RFC
- RTO / ISO
- PJM Interconnection
- Balancing authority
- PJM
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- 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].