South Plains Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates in Texas

• Average commercial price, 202510.39¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Texas average+21%state commercial average 8.56¢
• Commercial customers11,22014th largest of 74 in Texas
• Average use3,342 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$347a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+15%from 9.01¢ per kWh

South Plains Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative serving 18 counties in Texas. Among the 74 Texas utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 14th largest, with about 0.7% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as South Plains Electric Coop Inc.

South Plains Electric Cooperative commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 South Plains Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers an average of 9.01¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 10.39¢, so it rose 15% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Texas rose 5.0% over the same period. The highest year was 2022, at 13.72¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it was unchanged.

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 South Plains Electric Cooperative

In 2025 the average commercial price at South Plains Electric Cooperative was 5.7% below the residential figure and 41% 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 South Plains Electric Cooperative’s commercial rates are set

South Plains 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 South Plains Electric Cooperative

EIA counts 11,220 commercial meters at South Plains Electric Cooperative in 2025 and reports no advanced (AMI) meters among them. Of those, 11,220 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only. Without an advanced meter a business generally has no interval data, so its peak demand is read from the meter’s own register.

EIA records 2 commercial net-metered generating systems at South Plains Electric Cooperative in 2025, with 0.07 MW of capacity between them: about 0.2 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.

Where South Plains Electric Cooperative serves

EIA records South Plains Electric Cooperative serving customers in 18 Texas counties: Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Foard, Garza, Hale, Hall, Hardeman, Hockley, Kent, King, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Motley, Stonewall. 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¢)
• Farmers Electric Cooperative (9.95¢)
• Lubbock Power & Light (5.01¢ delivery only)
• 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 South Plains 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: South Plains Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about South Plains Electric Cooperative

What is the average commercial electricity rate at South Plains Electric Cooperative?

South Plains Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers in Texas an average of 10.39¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 21% 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 South Plains Electric Cooperative?

About $347 a month in 2025, on average use of about 3,342 kWh a month. That is South Plains Electric Cooperative’s commercial revenue divided by its 11,220 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have South Plains Electric Cooperative’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average South Plains Electric Cooperative billed commercial customers rose 15% between 2015 and 2025, from 9.01¢ to 10.39¢ per kWh. The Texas commercial average rose 5.0% over the same period.

Is this the rate my business will pay South Plains 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 South Plains Electric Cooperative’s tariff.