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

Southwest Tennessee E M C is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 17694. In 2024 it served 43,750 bundled residential customers in Tennessee, and its average realised residential price was 12.90 cents per kWh: $87 million of residential revenue divided by 677,417 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Southwest Tennessee E M C's 2024 average prices were 14.35 cents for commercial customers (8,602 accounts) and 6.84 cents for industrial customers (1 accounts). Industrial customers paid 6.06 cents less per kWh than households, a 47% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Tennessee, Southwest Tennessee E M C ranked number 13 of 88 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (43,750) and accounted for 1.55% 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 12.42 cents per kWh, so Southwest Tennessee E M C's customers paid 0.48 cents above the Tennessee average (+3.9%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Tennessee is 14.07 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 Tennessee E M C in 9 Tennessee counties: Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, Lauderdale, Madison, and Tipton. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: TVA.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 13.72 cents per kWh for Southwest Tennessee E M C in Tennessee across 43,847 residential customers, 0.82 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 Tennessee by service-territory centroid are City of Brownsville (10.3 miles away, 11.43 cents), Chickasaw Electric Coop, Inc (14.9 miles away, 11.00 cents), City of Jackson (TN) (16.6 miles away, 11.97 cents), Bolivar Energy Authority (22.7 miles away, 13.50 cents), and Forked Deer Electric Coop, Inc (23.6 miles away, 14.33 cents).