Tennessee · Cooperative

Cumberland Elec Member Corp Electricity Rates

Average residential price, customers served and derived annual usage from EIA Form 861, 2024 release.

12.99¢
Avg residential price / kWh
100.6K
Residential customers
+4.4%
vs Tennessee average
$2,124
Implied avg annual bill

Cumberland Elec Member Corp charged an average of 12.99¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - close to the Tennessee average and below the US average.

Cumberland Elec Member Corp is cooperative - a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Its reported average residential price is close to the Tennessee customer-weighted average (+4.4%). Its customers used well above the national residential norm at about 16,343 kWh a year each.

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 87 utilities reporting residential rates in Tennessee, Cumberland Elec Member Corp comes 68th of 87. The state's range runs from City of Newbern at 10.34¢ to French Broad Elec Member Corp at 14.91¢, so where a household sits inside Tennessee depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 24 other cooperative utilities reporting in Tennessee, which averaged 12.90¢, Cumberland Elec Member Corp is close to its own ownership class within the state (+0.7%).

All figures come from the 2024 release, so no comparison mixes vintages. The state figure is customer-weighted across 87 reporting utilities.

Where Cumberland Elec Member Corp sits among Tennessee utilities

2024 average residential price across the 87 utilities reporting a rate in Tennessee

12.99¢/kWh 22nd affordability percentile More affordable than 22% of 86 other utilities

Cumberland Elec Member Corp

average residential price, equal-width bands

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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

Cumberland Elec Member Corp average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
Cumberland Elec Member Corp 12.99¢ -
Tennessee (customer-weighted, 87 utilities) 12.44¢ +4.4%
United States average 16.48¢ -21.2%
Cooperative utilities nationally (622) 14.14¢ -8.1%

Rate against consumption: Tennessee utilities

Each dot is one of the 87 Tennessee utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Cumberland Elec Member Corp is highlighted. In Tennessee the cheapest rate belongs to City of Newbern (10.34¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to South Kentucky Rural E C C ($1,270) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 87 entities by Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) (X) and Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Costly rate, heavy useCheaper rate, heavy useCostly rate, light useCheaper rate, light use -50050100150 -50050100150 Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use)
Each dot is one of the 87 Tennessee utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Cumberland Elec Member Corp is highlighted. In Tennessee the cheapest rate belongs to City of Newbern (10.34¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to South Kentucky Rural E C C ($1,270) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists.

Scale and consumption

Cumberland Elec Member Corp reported 100.6K residential customers, ranking 7th of 87 utilities in Tennessee by customers served and covering 3.2% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 16,343 kWh per customer per year - well above the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $2,124.

Within Tennessee the median reporting utility sells about 13,595 kWh per customer, so Cumberland Elec Member Corp customers use +20.2% against their own state's middle. Consumption this heavy usually tracks electric heating, sustained air-conditioning load or a largely detached-housing territory, which makes the price per kWh bite harder here than the headline rate suggests.

Every utility reporting in Tennessee

All 87 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Tennessee, largest first, with Cumberland Elec Member Corp marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

Residential utilities in Tennessee, 2024, ranked by customers served
Utility Ownership Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Nashville Electric Service Municipal 417.6K 13.47¢
City of Memphis - (TN) Municipal 380.3K 12.16¢
Middle Tennessee E M C Cooperative 307.4K 11.76¢
Knoxville Utilities Board Municipal 193.7K 12.54¢
City of Chattanooga - (TN) Municipal 164.4K 12.32¢
Volunteer Electric Coop Cooperative 104.4K 12.19¢
Cumberland Elec Member Corp (this page) Cooperative 100.6K 12.99¢
City of Clarksville - (TN) Municipal 76.0K 12.77¢
Johnson City - (TN) Municipal 72.2K 12.41¢
Duck River Elec Member Corp Cooperative 71.3K 12.50¢
City of Lenoir - (TN) Municipal 62.5K 11.95¢
Upper Cumberland E M C Cooperative 45.6K 12.77¢
Southwest Tennessee E M C Cooperative 43.8K 12.90¢
Appalachian Electric Coop Cooperative 43.7K 12.93¢
Kingsport Power Co Investor Owned 43.2K 12.84¢
Sevier County Electric System Municipal 35.6K 11.33¢
Sequachee Valley Electric Coop Cooperative 33.2K 12.97¢
City of Greeneville - (TN) Municipal 32.4K 11.90¢
City of Jackson - (TN) Municipal 31.9K 11.97¢
Columbia Power System - (TN) Municipal 31.2K 12.00¢
City of Dickson Municipal 30.8K 11.65¢
Fort Loudoun Electric Coop Cooperative 30.5K 12.11¢
Meriwether Lewis Electric Coop Cooperative 30.3K 13.68¢
Caney Fork Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 29.6K 12.89¢
City of Bristol - (TN) Municipal 29.6K 10.81¢
City of Cleveland - (TN) Municipal 29.3K 12.53¢
Gibson Electric Members Corp Cooperative 29.3K 13.00¢
City of Alcoa Utilities Municipal 28.2K 12.21¢
City of Clinton - (TN) Municipal 26.2K 12.99¢
Holston Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 25.8K 13.05¢
Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) Cooperative 24.8K 12.33¢
City of Elizabethton - (TN) Municipal 23.3K 11.82¢
City of Gallatin - (TN) Municipal 23.2K 11.78¢
Powell Valley Electric Coop Cooperative 21.1K 11.49¢
Maryville Utilities Municipal 20.0K 11.28¢
City of LaFollette Municipal 19.9K 13.51¢
City of Newport - (TN) Municipal 19.9K 13.83¢
Chickasaw Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 19.6K 11.00¢
City of Lawrenceburg Municipal 18.1K 12.22¢
City of Lexington - (TN) Municipal 18.0K 12.04¢
Tennessee Valley Electric Coop Cooperative 16.8K 12.41¢
City of Fayetteville Municipal 16.7K 11.93¢
Pickwick Electric Coop Cooperative 16.6K 12.67¢
City of Paris - (TN) Municipal 16.3K 11.55¢
City of Cookeville - (TN) Municipal 15.9K 11.29¢
City of Oak Ridge Municipal 15.5K 12.47¢
Weakley County Mun Elec Sys Municipal 15.3K 11.29¢
Plateau Electric Cooperative Cooperative 14.3K 13.21¢
City of Morristown - (TN) Municipal 13.5K 12.74¢
Loudon Utilities Board Municipal 12.7K 11.45¢
Mountain Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 12.5K 12.34¢
City of Pulaski - (TN) Municipal 12.4K 13.31¢
Carroll County - (TN) Municipal 12.3K 11.92¢
City of Rockwood - (TN) Municipal 12.0K 12.71¢
Athens Utility Board Municipal 11.7K 11.77¢
City of Shelbyville - (TN) Municipal 9.9K 11.33¢
City of Dyersburg Municipal 9.5K 11.15¢
City of Harriman - (TN) Municipal 9.3K 13.44¢
Tullahoma Board-Public Utils Municipal 9.3K 11.18¢
City of Dayton - (TN) Municipal 9.1K 11.98¢
Bolivar Energy Authority Municipal 8.9K 13.50¢
Benton County Municipal 8.8K 13.88¢
Forked Deer Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 8.3K 14.33¢
City of Springfield - (TN) Municipal 7.7K 11.47¢
Town of Erwin - (TN) Municipal 7.6K 12.23¢
City of Sweetwater Municipal 7.5K 11.62¢
City of Milan - (TN) Municipal 6.9K 12.09¢
McMinnville Electric System Municipal 6.6K 11.83¢
City of Winchester - (TN) Municipal 5.3K 11.81¢
City of Union City Municipal 5.2K 11.31¢
City of Ripley - (TN) Municipal 5.1K 12.35¢
City of Lewisburg - (TN) Municipal 5.0K 11.22¢
City of Etowah Municipal 4.4K 13.61¢
City of Brownsville Municipal 4.1K 11.43¢
City of Covington - (TN) Municipal 3.7K 11.11¢
City of Humboldt Municipal 3.5K 11.36¢
City of Mt Pleasant - (TN) Municipal 3.5K 13.06¢
Tri-State Electric Member Corp Cooperative 2.8K 14.03¢
City of Smithville - (TN) Municipal 2.4K 12.11¢
City of Sparta Municipal 2.3K 11.94¢
City of Trenton - (TN) Municipal 2.0K 12.88¢
City of Jellico Municipal 1.6K 13.06¢
City of Newbern Municipal 1.5K 10.34¢
French Broad Elec Member Corp Cooperative 994 14.91¢
South Kentucky Rural E C C Cooperative 152 13.77¢
Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. Cooperative 78 14.31¢
Entergy Arkansas LLC Investor Owned 1 11.94¢

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in Tennessee.

Common questions about Cumberland Elec Member Corp rates

How much does Cumberland Elec Member Corp charge per kWh?
Cumberland Elec Member Corp reported an average residential price of 12.99¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.
Is Cumberland Elec Member Corp expensive compared with the rest of Tennessee?
Its average residential price is close to the Tennessee customer-weighted average of 12.44¢ per kWh, a difference of +4.4%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 87 utilities reporting residential service in Tennessee.
What is the average electricity bill for Cumberland Elec Member Corp customers?
Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 16,343 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $2,124 a year, or about $177 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
Who owns Cumberland Elec Member Corp?
EIA classifies Cumberland Elec Member Corp as Cooperative, a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Nationally, Cooperative utilities averaged 14.14¢ per kWh in the 2024 release.

What this page does and does not tell you

  • An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
  • Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology, why energy prices vary and understanding rate structures.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.

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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Average price, customers and sales are reported by EIA Form 861 (2024). Per-customer annual usage, the implied annual bill, the customer-weighted state average and every percentage difference are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.