Mississippi Power commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202512.67¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Mississippi average−4.0%state commercial average 13.20¢
• Commercial customers34,5072nd largest of 39 in Mississippi
• Average use7,009 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$888a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+14%from 11.10¢ per kWh
• Outages76 mina year per customer · US average 124

Mississippi Power is an investor-owned utility serving 23 counties in Mississippi. Among the 39 Mississippi utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 2nd largest, with about 14% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Mississippi Power Co.

Mississippi Power commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Mississippi Power billed its commercial customers an average of 11.10¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 12.67¢, so it rose 14% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Mississippi rose 25% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 15%.

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 Mississippi Power

In 2025 the average commercial price at Mississippi Power was 19% below the residential figure and 61% 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 Mississippi Power’s commercial rates are set

Mississippi Power is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the Mississippi Public Service Commission and published in a tariff, which is a public document. 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 Mississippi, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Mississippi Power

EIA counts 34,507 commercial meters at Mississippi Power in 2025, and 4 of them (less than 1%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 34,503 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

EIA records 47 commercial net-metered generating systems at Mississippi Power in 2025, with 3.03 MW of capacity between them: about 1.4 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 Mississippi Power’s electric service?

Mississippi Power customers went without power for an average of 76 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.88 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 105 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Mississippi Power serves

EIA records Mississippi Power serving customers in 23 Mississippi counties: Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lauderdale, Leake, Marion, Neshoba, Newton, Pearl River, and 5 more. 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 Southern Company as its balancing authority, the body that keeps supply and demand matched minute by minute across the area.

Other utilities in Mississippi

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Mississippi page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Entergy Mississippi (13.36¢)
• 4-County Electric Power Association (15.69¢)

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 Mississippi Power’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 Mississippi 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: Mississippi Power commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Mississippi Power

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Mississippi Power?

Mississippi Power billed its commercial customers in Mississippi an average of 12.67¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 4.0% below the Mississippi commercial average of 13.20¢. 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 Mississippi Power?

About $888 a month in 2025, on average use of about 7,009 kWh a month. That is Mississippi Power’s commercial revenue divided by its 34,507 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Mississippi Power’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Mississippi Power billed commercial customers rose 14% between 2015 and 2025, from 11.10¢ to 12.67¢ per kWh. The Mississippi commercial average rose 25% over the same period.

How reliable is Mississippi Power’s electric service?

Mississippi Power customers averaged 76 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Mississippi Power use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 4 advanced (AMI) meters among Mississippi Power’s 34,507 commercial meters in 2025, which is less than 1%. 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 Mississippi Power?

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 Mississippi Power’s tariff.