Farmers Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates in Texas

• Average commercial price, 20259.95¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Texas average+16%state commercial average 8.56¢
• Commercial customers15,86813th largest of 74 in Texas
• Average use1,913 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$190a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015−14%from 11.53¢ per kWh
• Outages66 mina year per customer · US average 124

Farmers Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative serving 12 counties in Texas. Among the 74 Texas utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 13th largest, with about 1.0% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Farmers Electric Coop, Inc.

Farmers Electric Cooperative commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Farmers Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers an average of 11.53¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 9.95¢, so it fell 14% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Texas rose 5.0% over the same period. The highest year was 2022, at 12.73¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it fell 8.8%.

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 Farmers Electric Cooperative

In 2025 the average commercial price at Farmers Electric Cooperative was 17% below the residential figure and 55% 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 Farmers Electric Cooperative’s commercial rates are set

Farmers 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 Texas can and cannot choose is on the Texas page.

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

EIA counts 15,952 commercial meters at Farmers Electric Cooperative in 2025, and 9,140 of them (57%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 6,812 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.

How reliable is Farmers Electric Cooperative’s electric service?

Farmers Electric Cooperative customers went without power for an average of 66 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 1.15 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 91 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Farmers Electric Cooperative serves

EIA records Farmers Electric Cooperative serving customers in 12 Texas counties: Collin, Dallas, Delta, Fannin, Franklin, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Rockwall, Van Zandt, Wood. 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 ERCOT as its balancing authority. ERCOT is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Texas

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

• Oncor Electric Delivery (3.90¢ delivery only)
• CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (3.84¢ delivery only)
• AEP Texas Central (3.62¢ delivery only)
• CPS Energy (10.09¢)
• Xcel Energy Texas (9.67¢)
• Entergy Texas (9.86¢)
• Austin Energy (10.96¢)
• Pedernales Electric Cooperative (10.41¢)
• Texas-New Mexico Power (2.18¢ delivery only)
• El Paso Electric (9.17¢)
• AEP Texas North (1.20¢ delivery only)
• SWEPCO (10.32¢)
• CoServ Electric (13.57¢)
• Tri-County Electric Cooperative (13.47¢)
• Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative (9.43¢)
• Magic Valley Electric Cooperative (11.29¢)
• United Cooperative Services (13.16¢)
• Lubbock Power & Light (5.01¢ delivery only)
• South Plains Electric Cooperative (10.39¢)
• Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (10.73¢)
• Comanche County Electric Cooperative (7.50¢)
• Bryan Texas Utilities (7.96¢)

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

Common questions about Farmers Electric Cooperative

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Farmers Electric Cooperative?

Farmers Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers in Texas an average of 9.95¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 16% above the Texas commercial average of 8.56¢. 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 Farmers Electric Cooperative?

About $190 a month in 2025, on average use of about 1,913 kWh a month. That is Farmers Electric Cooperative’s commercial revenue divided by its 15,868 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Farmers Electric Cooperative’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Farmers Electric Cooperative billed commercial customers fell 14% between 2015 and 2025, from 11.53¢ to 9.95¢ per kWh. The Texas commercial average rose 5.0% over the same period.

How reliable is Farmers Electric Cooperative’s electric service?

Farmers Electric Cooperative customers averaged 66 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Farmers Electric Cooperative use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 9,140 advanced (AMI) meters among Farmers Electric Cooperative’s 15,952 commercial meters in 2025, which is 57%. 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 Farmers 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 Farmers Electric Cooperative’s tariff.