Houston County Elec Coop Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 8898|Texas|Bundled
In 2024, Houston County Elec Coop Inc's residential customers paid an average of 16.60 cents per kWh: $37 million of revenue over 220,692 MWh of sales across 21,426 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 16.60c figure is calculated
16.60c/kWh = $36,637k revenue / 220,692 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Houston County 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 $166 before taxes.
About Houston County Elec Coop Inc's 2024 electricity prices
Houston County Elec Coop Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 8898. In 2024 it served 21,426 bundled residential customers in Texas, and its average realised residential price was 16.60 cents per kWh: $37 million of residential revenue divided by 220,692 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Houston County Elec Coop Inc's 2024 average prices were 12.76 cents for commercial customers (1,466 accounts) and 7.62 cents for industrial customers (9 accounts). Industrial customers paid 8.98 cents less per kWh than households, a 54% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Texas, Houston County Elec Coop Inc ranked number 69 of 164 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (21,426) and accounted for 0.13% 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 14.94 cents per kWh, so Houston County Elec Coop Inc's customers paid 1.66 cents above the Texas average (+11.1%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Texas is 15.94 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 Houston County Elec Coop Inc in 9 Texas counties: Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Freestone, Houston, Leon, Madison, Trinity, and Walker. On the grid side it operates in the TRE NERC region and the ERCOT and Southwest Power Pool markets, and reported transmission, distribution, and retail marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: ERCO.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 15.28 cents per kWh for Houston County Elec Coop Inc in Texas across 21,761 residential customers, 1.32 cents lower 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 Texas by service-territory centroid are Entergy Texas Inc. (54.1 miles away, 13.66 cents), Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn (TX) (55.7 miles away, 14.92 cents), Mid-South Electric Coop Assn (59.6 miles away, 14.08 cents), Navasota Valley Elec Coop, Inc (59.7 miles away, 15.75 cents), and Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc (60.7 miles away, 12.62 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 21,426 | 220,692 | 36,637 | 16.60 |
| Commercial | 1,466 | 59,552 | 7,600 | 12.76 |
| Industrial | 9 | 129,188 | 9,849 | 7.62 |
Counties served in Texas (9)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Texas: 15.28c/kWh (-1.32c vs 2024 final), 21,761 residential customers; commercial 10.29c; industrial 7.70c. Published 4 August 2026. EIA marks this file "not fully edited, use with caution"; the 2024 final figures above remain the reference.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Texas
- EIA utility number
- 8898
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Texas
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (TX, price basis)
- 21,426
- Residential accounts served (TX)
- 21,426
- All accounts, all sectors (TX)
- 22,901
- Residential price, 2024
- 16.60 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 12.76 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 7.62 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 220,692 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $37 million
- Rank in Texas by residential accounts served
- 69 of 164
- Share of Texas residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.13%
- Texas average, 2024
- 14.94 c/kWh
- Counties served (TX)
- 9
- NERC region
- TRE
- RTO / ISO
- ERCOT, Southwest Power Pool
- Balancing authority
- ERCO
- Reported activities
- Transmission, Distribution, Retail Marketing
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 15.28 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- -1.32 c/kWh
- 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].