DEMCO (Dixie Electric Membership Corporation) rates and bills

DEMCO's average price per kWh in 2025

DEMCO (Dixie Electric Membership Corporation) is a member-owned electric cooperative with 111,329 residential customers, 5.3% of Louisiana's total. In 2025 those homes paid an average of 13.53¢ per kWh, according to EIA's annual survey of every utility, Form EIA-861. That put DEMCO 3rd highest of the 16 Louisiana utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, 8.1% above the Louisiana average and 4.0% below the national average for electric cooperatives¹.

The figure is average revenue per kWh: what residential members were billed in total, divided by the kWh they used. It includes fixed monthly charges and the cost of wholesale power, excludes most taxes, and does not match any single line in DEMCO's rate schedule. A home that uses little electricity pays more per kWh on average than one that uses a lot, because the fixed charge is spread over fewer kWh.

DEMCO is not in EIA's monthly sample of utilities (Form EIA-861M), so there is no 12-month or single-month average for it. The 2025 annual figure is the latest official one; EIA's figures for 2026 are due in August 2027. For a more recent statewide reading, Louisiana homes across all utilities paid 13.02¢ per kWh² over the 12 months September 2025 to August 2026 (2026 months preliminary), a number that describes the state, not DEMCO.

Nationally, DEMCO's average is low. Among the 177 US utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, it ranked 52nd lowest of 177 in 2025, below the group's median of 15.07¢ per kWh¹.

A 2025 increase that SLEMCO did not have

In 2024, DEMCO and SLEMCO, the two Louisiana cooperatives with more than 100,000 residential customers, sat close together: 11.91¢ per kWh at DEMCO and 11.55¢ per kWh³ at SLEMCO. In 2025 DEMCO's average rose 13.6% to 13.53¢ per kWh, while SLEMCO's barely moved, to 11.57¢ per kWh. Entergy Louisiana, which reports customers in every parish DEMCO serves, rose 7.7% to 11.90¢ per kWh¹; the Louisiana average for all utilities rose 6.7%⁴.

SLEMCO (LA)11.57¢

Entergy Louisiana (LA)11.90¢

Entergy New Orleans (LA)13.20¢

DEMCO (LA)13.53¢

SWEPCO (LA)13.85¢

Cleco Power (LA)14.26¢

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	average residential price (bundled customers)
SLEMCO (LA)	11.57¢
Entergy Louisiana (LA)	11.90¢
Entergy New Orleans (LA)	13.20¢
DEMCO (LA)	13.53¢
SWEPCO (LA)	13.85¢
Cleco Power (LA)	14.26¢

EIA's annual data record the size of the change, not its cause. One documented fact about DEMCO's costs bears on it. DEMCO owns no power plants and, according to its wholesale power page, buys its electricity under an agreement with NextEra Energy Marketing that began on April 1, 2024; the cost reaches members through a Wholesale Power Charge that the Louisiana Public Service Commission allows DEMCO to recover. A contract that started in April was in place for nine months of 2024 and all twelve of 2025, so the two annual averages do not cover the same supply arrangement.

The next step came in 2026. DEMCO's rates page says the commission approved updates to its base rates, tariffs and rate design effective January 2026. The tariff on file at the commission sets the actual charges; the guide to electric rate increases explains how such decisions reach a bill.

The bill rose with the price, not with use

Use per home hardly changed between the two years, so nearly all of the +14.4%¹ rise in DEMCO's average bill came from the price.

DEMCO homes are heavy users even by Louisiana standards. Louisiana's residential customers used 1,225 kWh a month on average in 2025, the highest among the 50 states and DC; DEMCO's used 1,331 kWh. Combined with an above-state-average price, that gave DEMCO members an average bill of $180.07 in 2025, above Cleco's $177.57, SWEPCO's $162.77, SLEMCO's $162.40 and Entergy Louisiana's $146.76¹. The statewide average bill was $153.32⁵.

Entergy New Orleans (LA)$138.23

Entergy Louisiana (LA)$146.76

SLEMCO (LA)$162.40

SWEPCO (LA)$162.77

Cleco Power (LA)$177.57

DEMCO (LA)$180.07

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	average monthly residential bill
Entergy New Orleans (LA)	$138.23
Entergy Louisiana (LA)	$146.76
SLEMCO (LA)	$162.40
SWEPCO (LA)	$162.77
Cleco Power (LA)	$177.57
DEMCO (LA)	$180.07

SLEMCO homes used even more electricity (1,404 kWh a month) yet had the smaller average bill, $162.40¹, because their average price was lower. EIA does not publish DEMCO's month-by-month figures, but statewide use per home ran from 889 kWh in the lowest month to 1,763 kWh² in the highest over the 12 months September 2025 to August 2026, so a DEMCO summer bill is likely to sit well above its annual average.

Which Dixie Electric: the parishes around Baton Rouge

Searches for "Dixie Electric" mix three different utilities. EIA lists Dixie Electric Membership Corp in Louisiana (DEMCO), Dixie Electric Cooperative in Alabama and Dixie Electric Power Association in Mississippi as separate reporting utilities; the prices on this page are DEMCO's only. Bill payment, account login and the outage map are on DEMCO's own website.

EIA's 2025 service-territory records place DEMCO in 7 parishes: Ascension Parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, East Feliciana Parish, Livingston Parish, St. Helena Parish, Tangipahoa Parish and West Feliciana Parish⁶. Another distribution utility also reports customers in every one of them. Entergy Louisiana reports service in all of DEMCO's parishes, and Washington-St. Tammany Electric Cooperative also reports customers in Tangipahoa Parish. A Baton Rouge-area address can therefore be on DEMCO or Entergy Louisiana lines, at different average prices; the utilities' own service maps decide by street address, not by city or ZIP code.

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Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 7 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.

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County	Other utilities reporting service
Ascension Parish	Entergy Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish	Entergy Louisiana
East Feliciana Parish	Entergy Louisiana
Livingston Parish	Entergy Louisiana
St. Helena Parish	Entergy Louisiana
Tangipahoa Parish	Entergy Louisiana, Washington-St Tammany E C
West Feliciana Parish	Entergy Louisiana

Frequent interruptions

DEMCO reported 4.62 interruptions per customer in 2025, counting major events, against 2.20 for Louisiana as a whole, a state that ranked 5th highest on that measure. At the other large utilities the figure was 3.02 for SWEPCO, 2.67 for SLEMCO, 2.26 for Cleco and 1.84⁸ for Entergy Louisiana.

Total time without power was less of an outlier. DEMCO members averaged 321 minutes in 2025 including major events (more than the Louisiana average of 267 minutes) and 275 minutes excluding them, against 216 minutes⁸ statewide. DEMCO reports under IEEE 1366, as Entergy Louisiana and SWEPCO do; SLEMCO and Cleco use another method, so comparisons with those two are approximate.

Entergy New Orleans (LA)209

Cleco Power (LA)212

SLEMCO (LA)232

Entergy Louisiana (LA)253

DEMCO (LA)321

SWEPCO (LA)451

Source: EIA-861 2025, reliability. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	outage minutes per customer (all events)
Entergy New Orleans (LA)	209
Cleco Power (LA)	212
SLEMCO (LA)	232
Entergy Louisiana (LA)	253
DEMCO (LA)	321
SWEPCO (LA)	451

Smart meters and rooftop solar

Every DEMCO residential meter counted by EIA in 2025 was an advanced meter (100.0%), a meter that can be read remotely and supports billing by time of day. Members had 1,369 net-metered rooftop solar systems with 9.4 megawatts of capacity, 12.3 per 1,000 residential customers. That is more than SLEMCO's 9.7 and fewer than Entergy Louisiana's 15.8⁹.

Commercial and industrial members

DEMCO's 8,414 commercial accounts paid an average of 12.90¢ per kWh in 2025, a little below what its homes paid, with an average bill of $576.62 a month. Its 16 industrial accounts paid 10.97¢ per kWh. Across all 119,759 accounts the average was 13.33¢ per kWh, a figure that mixes customer classes and says little about a household bill. DEMCO's territory lies within the MISO¹ wholesale market.

Help with bills

Louisiana's share of federal LIHEAP energy assistance was $57.0 million¹⁰ for fiscal 2026. The program, run by the Louisiana Housing Corporation, covers cooling as well as heating bills. For how DEMCO compares with every utility in the state, see electricity in Louisiana; for the other large co-op, see SLEMCO.