Southern Company electricity rates in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi

Three utilities, three prices

Southern Company is a holding company. Its electric operating utilities, Alabama Power, Georgia Power and Mississippi Power, each own their own plants and lines, report separately to EIA and have their rates set by their own state regulator: the Alabama Public Service Commission, the Georgia Public Service Commission and the Mississippi Public Service Commission. A search for "Southern Company rates" therefore has three answers.

Every price here is average revenue per kWh: what residential customers paid in total, customer charge, fuel recovery and riders included, divided by the kWh they used. The 2025 columns come from EIA-861, the final annual survey; the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) come from EIA-861M, the monthly sample, whose 2026 months are preliminary. Across the three utilities, residential customers paid 16.85¢ per kWh on average in 2025, against a US residential average of 17.23¢ per kWh³ and 17.78¢ per kWh for all US investor-owned utilities. Georgia Power was 8.4% below the national average for investor-owned utilities and Mississippi Power 11.8% below the national average for investor-owned utilities; Alabama Power was 0.7% above the national average for investor-owned utilities¹.

Above the state average in every state

Measured against their own states, all three utilities were priced above average. In 2025, Alabama Power's average was 11.3% above the Alabama average and the highest among the 28 Alabama utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers. Georgia Power was 10.4% above the Georgia average, 6th highest of 46, and Mississippi Power 11.8% above the Mississippi average, 2nd highest of 25¹.

The state averages include everyone else. Alabama Power and Georgia Power are each the only investor-owned utility EIA lists in their state; the other homes are on the lines of electric cooperatives and municipal utilities, whose averages were lower in 2025. In Alabama, cooperatives averaged 15.19¢ per kWh and public power 12.51¢ per kWh, against Alabama Power's 17.91¢ per kWh; the lowest average among the larger Alabama utilities was City of Dothan's 10.66¢ per kWh¹.

Investor-owned utilities17.91¢

Electric cooperatives15.19¢

Public power (municipal, districts, state)12.51¢

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	17.91¢	1,342,827
Electric cooperatives	15.19¢	512,163
Public power (municipal, districts, state)	12.51¢	506,426

In Georgia, cooperatives averaged 13.34¢ per kWh and public power 13.34¢ per kWh, and cooperatives served 2,029,337 residential customers, close to Georgia Power's 2,480,484. Mississippi has a second investor-owned utility: Entergy Mississippi averaged 13.86¢ per kWh in 2025, below Mississippi Power's 15.69¢ per kWh¹. The state comparison does not tell a household it could pay less: the utility is fixed by the address, and the pages for Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi list every utility by county.

Alabama Power's bills are the largest

A home's bill depends on kWh as much as on price. In 2025, Alabama Power's customers used 1,129 kWh a month and paid $202.13 on average, and Mississippi Power's used 1,139 kWh and paid $178.65. Georgia Power's used 990 kWh, the least of the three, and paid $161.13¹. The US averages that year were 874 kWh and $150.68⁴.

Georgia Power (GA)$161.13

Mississippi Power (MS)$178.65

Alabama Power (AL)$202.13

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
Georgia Power (GA)	$161.13
Mississippi Power (MS)	$178.65
Alabama Power (AL)	$202.13

Mississippi Power's bill rose the most from 2024 to 2025: +11.2%, from $160.68⁵ to $178.65, because both its price and its customers' use rose. Alabama Power's bill changed by +6.7%, entirely from price, since use per home was unchanged at 1,129 kWh; Georgia Power's by +5.1%¹.

Summer sets the size of the bill

Use peaks in summer in all three service areas. In EIA's monthly data for the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026, 2026 months preliminary), Alabama Power's homes used the most in August 2026, 1,537 kWh on average, for a bill of $273.63; in April 2026 they used 815 kWh and paid $150.28².

1,159Sep

868Oct

891Nov

1,222Dec

1,371Jan

1,000Feb

835Mar

815Apr

960May

1,258Jun

1,513Jul

1,537Aug

Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility. kWh per residential customer in each month (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary). The table adds the average bill and price for the month.

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Month	kWh per customer	Bill per customer	¢/kWh
September 2025	1,159	$211.75	18.26¢
October 2025	868	$166.44	19.17¢
November 2025	891	$156.45	17.55¢
December 2025	1,222	$214.00	17.52¢
January 2026	1,371	$246.66	17.99¢
February 2026	1,000	$188.29	18.83¢
March 2026	835	$156.15	18.70¢
April 2026	815	$150.28	18.43¢
May 2026	960	$170.73	17.79¢
June 2026	1,258	$221.78	17.63¢
July 2026	1,513	$270.11	17.86¢
August 2026	1,537	$273.63	17.80¢

Georgia Power's homes peaked in July 2026 at 1,355 kWh and $255.80, Mississippi Power's in July 2026 at 1,602 kWh and $235.85. The smallest bills were $109.84 at Georgia Power (April 2026) and $140.15 at Mississippi Power (April 2026²). A household budgeting by its annual average will see summer bills well above it.

What changed from 2024 to 2026

All three averages rose from 2024 to 2025: Mississippi Power's by +8.4%, from 14.47¢ per kWh to 15.69¢ per kWh, Alabama Power's by +6.8%, from 16.77¢ per kWh, and Georgia Power's by +5.1%¹, from 15.49¢ per kWh⁵.

The monthly survey carries the story into 2026. Over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026), against the 2025 averages above, the three averaged 18.07¢ per kWh at Alabama Power, 16.40¢ per kWh at Georgia Power and 16.27¢ per kWh at Mississippi Power. In the single month of August 2026, the change against the same month a year earlier was −7.1% at Mississippi Power, −1.9% at Alabama Power and −0.3% at Georgia Power, while the US residential average changed by +3.4%⁶. These monthly figures are preliminary. In that month Georgia Power averaged 18.01¢ per kWh and Alabama Power 17.80¢ per kWh²; a single month is not a basis for ranking them, which is why the table above compares full years.

Outages, smart meters and time-of-use

Outage figures are not directly comparable across the group. Georgia Power and Mississippi Power report to EIA under the IEEE 1366 standard; Alabama Power reports with another method (not IEEE 1366). Counting major storms, Mississippi Power's customers averaged 105 minutes without power in 2025, fewer than the Mississippi average of 501 minutes, and Georgia Power's 287 minutes, more than the Georgia average of 270 minutes. Alabama Power reported 410 minutes, or 108 minutes⁷ without major event days.

Metering is where the three differ most clearly. EIA's 2025 data show advanced meters on 100.0% of Alabama Power's and 100.0% of Georgia Power's residential accounts, and 0.0% reported for Mississippi Power. Georgia Power had 72,591 residential customers on time-of-use pricing, 2.9% of its homes; Alabama Power reported 6,041 on time-of-use and critical peak pricing. Rooftop solar is rare: 12,412 net-metered residential installations at Georgia Power (5.0 per 1,000 customers) and 530⁸ at Mississippi Power.

Where each utility serves

EIA's 2025 service-territory records place Georgia Power in 155 Georgia counties, Alabama Power in 59 Alabama counties and Mississippi Power in 23 Mississippi counties. In nearly all of them another utility also serves part of the county: in 57⁹ of Alabama Power's counties and in every one of Georgia Power's and Mississippi Power's. A county name is not enough to know the utility; the utility's own service map decides by address. Each utility page maps its counties and compares it with its state.