New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202523.18¢per kWh, customers on bundled service
• vs New Hampshire average+15%state commercial average 20.11¢
• Commercial customers10,7773rd largest of 4 in New Hampshire
• Average use1,281 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$297a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+27%from 18.22¢ per kWh
• Outages526 mina year per customer · US average 124

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) is an electric cooperative serving 9 counties in New Hampshire. Among the 4 New Hampshire utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 3rd largest, with about 9.5% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as New Hampshire Elec Coop Inc.

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 New Hampshire Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers on bundled service an average of 18.22¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 23.18¢, so it rose 27% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in New Hampshire rose 34% over the same period. The highest year was 2023, at 24.80¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 4.7%.

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.

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative customers who buy their energy from a supplier

In 2025, 38% of the commercial kWh New Hampshire Electric Cooperative delivered went to customers buying their energy from a competitive supplier, and 17% of its commercial customers did so. The share by kWh is the larger because the businesses that shop tend to be the larger ones. New Hampshire Electric Cooperative bills those customers for delivery only, at an average of 11.33¢ per kWh, which is the part of a bill that no supplier can change.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative

In 2025 the average commercial price at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative was 6.2% below the residential figure and 17% 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.

The customers who buy their energy from a supplier are counted separately, and New Hampshire Electric Cooperative bills them for delivery alone:

How New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s commercial rates are set

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative 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. What a business in New Hampshire can and cannot choose is on the New Hampshire page.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative

EIA counts 11,261 commercial meters at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative in 2025, and 11,261 of them (100%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, 220 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 2.0% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds New Hampshire Electric Cooperative reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.

EIA records 161 commercial net-metered generating systems at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative in 2025, with 5.32 MW of capacity between them: about 15 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 New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s electric service?

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative customers went without power for an average of 526 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 2.86 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 874 minutes. This utility reports on a different measurement standard, so the comparison is only approximate. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where New Hampshire Electric Cooperative serves

EIA records New Hampshire Electric Cooperative serving customers in 9 New Hampshire counties: Belknap, Carroll, Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford, Sullivan. 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 ISO New England as its balancing authority. ISO New England is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in New Hampshire

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

• Eversource New Hampshire (19.88¢)
• Unitil (22.09¢)

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 New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’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 New Hampshire page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.
• Bundled and delivery-only are different customers. The two prices describe different parts of the bill and are never added together or averaged.

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: New Hampshire Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about New Hampshire Electric Cooperative

What is the average commercial electricity rate at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative?

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers on bundled service in New Hampshire an average of 23.18¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 15% above the New Hampshire commercial average of 20.11¢. 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 New Hampshire Electric Cooperative?

About $297 a month in 2025, on average use of about 1,281 kWh a month. That is New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s commercial revenue divided by its 8,930 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average New Hampshire Electric Cooperative billed commercial customers rose 27% between 2015 and 2025, from 18.22¢ to 23.18¢ per kWh. The New Hampshire commercial average rose 34% over the same period.

How reliable is New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s electric service?

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative customers averaged 526 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does New Hampshire Electric Cooperative use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 11,261 advanced (AMI) meters among New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s 11,261 commercial meters in 2025, which is 100%. 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 New Hampshire Electric Cooperative?

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 New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s tariff.