Texas · Electric cooperative · EIA data, final 2025
Tri-County Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates in Texas
What Tri-County Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers, year by year since 2015, with the average bill, the other customer classes, meters, reliability and territory. Official figures, and context for a bill rather than a quote.
Tri-County Electric Cooperative billed its 20,402 commercial customers in Texas an average of 13.47¢ per kWh in 2025, 57% above the state’s commercial average of 8.56¢. The average customer used about 4,735 kWh a month and was billed about $638. It is an average over every size of customer, not a rate.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data) · 2026-10-29
- Average commercial price, 202513.47¢per kWh, all commercial customers
- vs Texas average+57%state commercial average 8.56¢
- Commercial customers20,4029th largest of 74 in Texas
- Average use4,735 kWha month per commercial customer
- Average bill$638a month per commercial customer
- Since 2015+62%from 8.33¢ per kWh
- Outages132 mina year per customer · US average 124
Tri-County Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative serving 16 counties in Texas. Among the 74 Texas utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 9th largest, with about 1.3% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX).
Tri-County Electric Cooperative commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025
In 2015 Tri-County Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers an average of 8.33¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 13.47¢, so it rose 62% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Texas rose 5.0% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 21%.
| Year | Commercial customers | Average price per kWh | Texas average per kWh | Average use a month | Average bill a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20,402 | 13.47¢ | 8.56¢ | 4,735 kWh | $638 |
| 2024 | 19,947 | 11.13¢ | 8.55¢ | 4,820 kWh | $536 |
| 2023 | 19,871 | 13.23¢ | 8.82¢ | 2,859 kWh | $378 |
| 2022 | 19,544 | 12.93¢ | 9.05¢ | 2,777 kWh | $359 |
| 2021 | 18,498 | 9.38¢ | 8.72¢ | 2,667 kWh | $250 |
| 2020 | 19,078 | 8.44¢ | 7.60¢ | 2,379 kWh | $201 |
| 2019 | 17,269 | 8.35¢ | 8.06¢ | 2,817 kWh | $235 |
| 2018 | 15,723 | 8.24¢ | 8.16¢ | 3,023 kWh | $249 |
| 2017 | 13,474 | 7.98¢ | 8.26¢ | 3,265 kWh | $260 |
| 2016 | 12,865 | 7.61¢ | 8.26¢ | 3,380 kWh | $257 |
| 2015 | 12,319 | 8.33¢ | 8.15¢ | 3,558 kWh | $296 |
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 Tri-County Electric Cooperative
In 2025 the average commercial price at Tri-County Electric Cooperative was 11% below the residential figure and 19% below 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.
| Customer class | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Average price per kWh | Average use a month | Average bill a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 117,857 | 2,137,727 | 15.07¢ | 1,512 kWh | $228 |
| Commercial | 20,402 | 1,159,294 | 13.47¢ | 4,735 kWh | $638 |
| Industrial | 1,271 | 11,691 | 16.66¢ | 767 kWh | $128 |
How Tri-County Electric Cooperative’s commercial rates are set
Tri-County 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 Tri-County Electric Cooperative
EIA counts 22,435 commercial meters at Tri-County Electric Cooperative in 2025, and 22,413 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, 22 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 22 commercial net-metered generating systems at Tri-County Electric Cooperative in 2025, with 0.33 MW of capacity between them: about 1.1 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 Tri-County Electric Cooperative’s electric service?
Tri-County Electric Cooperative customers went without power for an average of 132 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 1.40 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 203 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.
Where Tri-County Electric Cooperative serves
EIA records Tri-County Electric Cooperative serving customers in 16 Texas counties: Archer, Baylor, Denton, Foard, Haskell, Hood, Jack, King, Knox, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stonewall, Tarrant, Throckmorton, Wilbarger, Wise. 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¢)
- 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)
- 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 Tri-County 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: Tri-County Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.
Common questions about Tri-County Electric Cooperative
- What is the average commercial electricity rate at Tri-County Electric Cooperative?
- Tri-County Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers in Texas an average of 13.47¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 57% 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 Tri-County Electric Cooperative?
- About $638 a month in 2025, on average use of about 4,735 kWh a month. That is Tri-County Electric Cooperative’s commercial revenue divided by its 20,402 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.
- Have Tri-County Electric Cooperative’s commercial electricity rates gone up?
- The average Tri-County Electric Cooperative billed commercial customers rose 62% between 2015 and 2025, from 8.33¢ to 13.47¢ per kWh. The Texas commercial average rose 5.0% over the same period.
- How reliable is Tri-County Electric Cooperative’s electric service?
- Tri-County Electric Cooperative customers averaged 132 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).
- Does Tri-County Electric Cooperative use smart meters for businesses?
- EIA counts 22,413 advanced (AMI) meters among Tri-County Electric Cooperative’s 22,435 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 Tri-County 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 Tri-County Electric Cooperative’s tariff.
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