Pedernales Electric Cooperative rates, bills and use per home

The 2025 average, and why there is no 2026 figure

Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) is an electric cooperative: a non-profit utility owned by the members it serves, which both sells and delivers their electricity. In 2025 it served 420,753 residential members and 474,954¹ accounts of all kinds, on the ERCOT grid.

Its residential members paid an average of 12.75¢ per kWh¹ that year. This is average revenue per kWh: everything PEC billed residential members, divided by the kWh they used. It includes the fixed monthly charge and any power-cost adjustments, and it blends every rate option, so it will not match any one line of PEC's tariff, and a member who uses little pays more per kWh than one who uses a lot.

Placed against other utilities, the 2025 average was:

• 23rd lowest of the 61 Texas utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers;
• 17.2% below the Texas average (15.40¢ per kWh² for all Texas providers);
• 9.6% below the national average for electric cooperatives;
• 29th lowest of 177¹ US utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers.

There is no 2026 average for PEC yet. EIA's monthly survey, Form EIA-861M, covers a sample of utilities, and PEC is not in it, so the annual 2025 figure is the latest official average for the co-op. Statewide, the Texas residential average for all providers was 15.98¢ per kWh over the 12 months September 2025 to August 2026, +4.8%³ on the 12 months before (2026 months preliminary); that describes Texas, not PEC. EIA's August 2027 release will carry PEC's 2026 figures.

A lower price than Austin, a higher bill

The Hill Country co-op and the city utility next door show why price and bill rank differently. In 2025:

PEC's average price sat between the two city utilities, yet its average bill was the highest of the four. The difference against the city utilities is use: a PEC home used more electricity than an Austin Energy or CPS Energy home, and more than the average Texas home (1,110 kWh⁴ a month). Bluebonnet homes used slightly more than PEC's but paid a lower average price, so their bill came out lower. EIA's data show the use per account, not the house sizes, heating fuels or appliances behind it.

Austin Energy (TX)835

CPS Energy (TX)1,075

Pedernales Electric Cooperative (TX)1,202

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative (TX)1,244

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 use
Austin Energy (TX)	835
CPS Energy (TX)	1,075
Pedernales Electric Cooperative (TX)	1,202
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative (TX)	1,244

Against the state as a whole, PEC's members still came out below average on the bill: $153.24¹ a month, against $170.95⁴ for all Texas residential customers in 2025.

What changed from 2024 to 2025

PEC's residential average rose 4.3%, from 12.22¢ per kWh in 2024 to 12.75¢ per kWh in 2025, a little faster than the Texas average for all providers (+3.1%²). Use per home edged up too, from 1,191 kWh to 1,202 kWh a month, so the average bill rose more than the price: from $145.55⁵ to $153.24 (+5.3%¹).

EIA reports revenue and sales, so these figures cannot separate a change in base rates from a change in the cost of wholesale power passed through to members. PEC publishes its current rate schedules on its own website.

The co-op picture in Texas

Texas electric cooperatives together served 2,498,461 customers in 2025, and their residential members paid 13.17¢ per kWh on average, against 13.70¢ per kWh for investor-owned utilities and 12.63¢ per kWh for city-owned and other public power utilities. PEC's 12.75¢ per kWh was below the co-op average. Among Texas utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, the lowest average in 2025 was Kerrville Public Utility Board at 9.42¢ per kWh, the highest Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative at 17.04¢ per kWh¹.

Investor-owned utilities13.70¢

Electric cooperatives13.17¢

Public power (municipal, districts, state)12.63¢

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. Bundled (full-service) residential revenue divided by kWh, summed over every utility of each type (EIA-861 2025). Small utilities filing the short form report no residential split and are not included.

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Type	¢/kWh	Residential customers
Investor-owned utilities	13.70¢	1,170,218
Electric cooperatives	13.17¢	2,498,461
Public power (municipal, districts, state)	12.63¢	1,892,604

None of PEC's residential members bought electricity from a retail electric provider in 2025: EIA counts all 420,753 homes on its lines as full-service members of the co-op. Across Texas, 55.5%¹ of residential customers did buy from a provider. The Texas retail choice guide explains where shopping applies.

Where PEC serves

EIA's service-territory records place PEC in 24 counties: Bell County, Bexar County, Blanco County, Burnet County, Caldwell County, Comal County, Edwards County, Gillespie County, Guadalupe County, Hays County, Kendall County, Kerr County and 12 others. In all 24⁶ of them at least one other utility also reports customers, among them Austin Energy in Travis County and CPS Energy in Bexar County. A town name or ZIP code therefore does not settle which utility serves a property; PEC's service-area map does, by address.

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Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 24 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
Bell County	Oncor, Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative, Bartlett Electric Cooperative, City of Bartlett
Bexar County	CPS Energy, Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Bandera Electric Cooperative, Karnes Electric Cooperative
Blanco County	Central Texas Electric Cooperative
Burnet County	Oncor, City of Burnet
Caldwell County	AEP Texas Central, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, City of Lockhart, City of Luling
Comal County	CPS Energy, Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, City of New Braunfels
Edwards County	AEP Texas Central, AEP Texas North, Medina Electric Cooperative, Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative
Gillespie County	AEP Texas North, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, City of Fredericksburg
Guadalupe County	CPS Energy, AEP Texas Central, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, City of New Braunfels, City of Seguin
Hays County	Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, City of San Marcos
Kendall County	CPS Energy, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Bandera Electric Cooperative, City of Boerne
Kerr County	Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Bandera Electric Cooperative, Kerrville Public Utility Board
Kimble County	AEP Texas North, Central Texas Electric Cooperative
Kinney County	AEP Texas Central, Medina Electric Cooperative, Rio Grande Electric Cooperative
Lampasas County	Oncor, Hamilton County Electric Cooperative Association, City of Lampasas
Llano County	Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Hamilton County Electric Cooperative Association, City of Llano
Mason County	Oncor, AEP Texas North, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, City of Mason
Menard County	Oncor, AEP Texas North, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative
Real County	AEP Texas Central, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Bandera Electric Cooperative, Medina Electric Cooperative
San Saba County	Oncor, Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Hamilton County Electric Cooperative Association, City of San Saba
Schleicher County	AEP Texas North, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative
Sutton County	AEP Texas North, Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative
Travis County	Oncor, Austin Energy, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative
Williamson County	Oncor, Austin Energy, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, City of Georgetown, Bartlett Electric Cooperative, City of Bartlett

Outages: well under the Texas average

PEC members averaged 90 minutes without power in 2025, counting major events, fewer than the Texas average of 225 minutes. Excluding major event days the figure was 78 minutes, against 130 minutes statewide, and each member saw 1.16 interruptions on average, against 1.71⁸ for Texas. All are measured under IEEE 1366. Current outages are shown on PEC's own outage map, not in EIA data.

Pedernales Electric Cooperative (TX)90

CPS Energy (TX)111

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative (TX)114

Austin Energy (TX)182

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)
Pedernales Electric Cooperative (TX)	90
CPS Energy (TX)	111
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative (TX)	114
Austin Energy (TX)	182

Rooftop solar, smart meters and time-of-use

PEC members reported 13,584 net-metered rooftop solar installations in 2025, with 113.2 megawatts of capacity. That is 32.3 per 1,000 residential members, far above the Texas figure of 10.8 and a little below the national 38.1⁹. How exported power is credited is set in PEC's tariff; the net metering guide explains the general mechanics.

Advanced meters were in place at 99.9% of homes, yet only 681 residential members (0.2%) were enrolled in a time-of-use⁹ rate. Almost every PEC home is billed without time-of-day pricing.

Business accounts

PEC's 53,505 commercial accounts paid an average of 10.41¢ per kWh in 2025, with a monthly bill of $315.43; its 696 industrial accounts paid 7.59¢ per kWh. Across all customers the average was 11.98¢ per kWh¹. For prices across the state, see electricity in Texas.