Upper Cumberland E M C Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Upper Cumberland E M C is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 19574. In 2024 it served 45,560 bundled residential customers in Tennessee, and its average realised residential price was 12.77 cents per kWh: $82 million of residential revenue divided by 644,627 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Upper Cumberland E M C's 2024 average prices were 13.67 cents for commercial customers (8,620 accounts) and 8.26 cents for industrial customers (10 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.51 cents less per kWh than households, a 35% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Tennessee, Upper Cumberland E M C ranked number 12 of 88 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (45,560) and accounted for 1.47% 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 Upper Cumberland E M C's customers paid 0.35 cents above the Tennessee average (+2.8%). 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 Upper Cumberland E M C in 9 Tennessee counties: Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Smith, and White. 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 13.71 cents per kWh for Upper Cumberland E M C in Tennessee across 45,862 residential customers, 0.94 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 Cookeville (TN) (11.8 miles away, 11.29 cents), City of Smithville (TN) (25.5 miles away, 12.11 cents), City of Sparta (26.5 miles away, 11.94 cents), Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) (28.2 miles away, 12.33 cents), and Caney Fork Electric Coop, Inc (37.5 miles away, 12.89 cents).