Chugach Electric Association commercial electricity rates in Alaska

• Average commercial price, 202517.59¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Alaska average−21%state commercial average 22.35¢
• Commercial customers16,416largest of 9 in Alaska
• Average use6,247 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$1,099a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+29%from 13.64¢ per kWh
• Outages144 mina year per customer · US average 124

Chugach Electric Association is an electric cooperative serving 2 counties in Alaska. Among the 9 Alaska utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the largest, with about 29% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Chugach Electric Assn Inc.

Chugach Electric Association commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Chugach Electric Association billed its commercial customers an average of 13.64¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 17.59¢, so it rose 29% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Alaska rose 28% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 4.2%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Chugach Electric Association

In 2025 the average commercial price at Chugach Electric Association was 23% below the residential figure and 19% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Chugach Electric Association’s commercial rates are set

Chugach Electric Association is a cooperative, owned by the members it serves. Its board sets its rates, and in some states the state commission reviews them as well. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. There is no competitive supply market for ordinary commercial accounts in Alaska, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Chugach Electric Association

EIA counts 16,207 commercial meters at Chugach Electric Association in 2025, and 16,200 of them (more than 99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 3 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 4 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

EIA records 83 commercial net-metered generating systems at Chugach Electric Association in 2025, with 0.85 MW of capacity between them: about 5.1 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Chugach Electric Association’s electric service?

Chugach Electric Association customers went without power for an average of 144 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 1.56 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 300 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Chugach Electric Association serves

EIA records Chugach Electric Association serving customers in 2 Alaska counties: Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists Chugach Electric Association as its balancing authority, the body that keeps supply and demand matched minute by minute across the area.

Other utilities in Alaska

No other Alaska utility has a page of its own here. The Alaska page lists every utility EIA records in the state with 500 or more commercial customers.

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Chugach Electric Association’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Alaska page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Chugach Electric Association commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Chugach Electric Association

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Chugach Electric Association?

Chugach Electric Association billed its commercial customers in Alaska an average of 17.59¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 21% below the Alaska commercial average of 22.35¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Chugach Electric Association?

About $1,099 a month in 2025, on average use of about 6,247 kWh a month. That is Chugach Electric Association’s commercial revenue divided by its 16,416 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Chugach Electric Association’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Chugach Electric Association billed commercial customers rose 29% between 2015 and 2025, from 13.64¢ to 17.59¢ per kWh. The Alaska commercial average rose 28% over the same period.

How reliable is Chugach Electric Association’s electric service?

Chugach Electric Association customers averaged 144 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Chugach Electric Association use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 16,200 advanced (AMI) meters among Chugach Electric Association’s 16,207 commercial meters in 2025, which is more than 99%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Chugach Electric Association?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Chugach Electric Association’s tariff.