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Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) member rates

Cooperative residential average from EIA Form 861, 2024 - compared with other Louisiana utilities that serve the same state.

11.91¢
Co-op avg ¢/kWh
110.7K
Member-customers
11
Cooperative utilities in LA
+1.3%
vs Louisiana average

Among 194 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) ranks #167 by average cents per kWh and #175 by residential customers. Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) (cooperative) averaged 11.91¢/kWh for members in 2024 - close to the Louisiana customer-weighted average.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count. Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) 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 Louisiana customer-weighted average (+1.3%). Its customers used well above the national residential norm at about 15,853 kWh a year each.

  • San Diego Gas & Electric Co 43.63¢ · customers rank #90
  • Florida Power & Light Co 5,236,277 customers · price rank #122

Highest average rate is not the most customers

Residential customers for the average-rate #1 and customers #1 utilities among 194 with 100,000 or more residential customers

residential customers
  • FL size
    5,236,277
  • CA rate
    307,982

What this shows San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey, latest release. Average cents per kWh and customer counts from the same rows; no tariff or bill is implied. As of 2024

EIA Form 861 utility filing desk

Release LA-2024 · Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) NEAR STATE

Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) · Form 861 2024 · NEAR STATE

  • RATE 11.91¢/kWh
  • RANK #12/22
  • VS-ST +1.3%
  • VS-US -30.4%
  • CUST 111k
  • BILL $1,889
  • OWN COOP
  • PHOTO WA 0.05¢
  • BOOK 175/194

Nearest Form 861 price peer: Avista Corp (WA) (-0.05¢ gap)

EIA Form 861 residential filing stamps for this utility record. Read with this utility → · Louisiana rates

Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) in the Form 861 price neighbourhood

Average residential ¢/kWh among this utility and nearest indexable peers

¢/kWh
  • KY
    12
  • WA
    12
  • this util
    12
  • NM
    12
  • TX
    12

What this shows Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) reports 11.91¢/kWh, corpus customer-rank 175 of 194.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey As of 2024
F31/100

RateWatt cost context

How Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) compares on reported cost context

A weighted comparison, not a tariff quote, reliability grade, service-quality score, or recommendation. Lower price and lower implied annual bill score better against reporting utilities in Louisiana; the state generation context is shown separately.

Price against state peers
48/100

11.91¢/kWh · median 11.88¢/kWh

Implied annual bill against state peers
24/100

$1,889/yr · median $1,707/yr

State renewable generation context
0/100

3.7% · median 22.8%

Weights: 50% price, 30% implied annual bill, 20% state renewable-generation context. Unreported inputs are excluded and the remaining weights are redistributed. Price and bill use EIA Form 861 (2024); generation context uses EIA state generation data (2025) and is not attributed to this provider.

State peers

Other Louisiana utilities members might otherwise face

All 22 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Louisiana, largest first, with Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

Residential utilities in Louisiana, 2024, ranked by customers served
Utility Ownership Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Entergy Louisiana LLC Investor Owned 957.5K 11.05¢
Cleco Power LLC Investor Owned 251.9K 12.33¢
Southwestern Electric Power Co Investor Owned 207.0K 13.46¢
Entergy New Orleans, LLC Investor Owned 188.2K 13.03¢
Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) (this page) Cooperative 110.7K 11.91¢
Southwest Louisiana E M C Cooperative 108.4K 11.55¢
City of Lafayette - (LA) Municipal 60.0K 10.12¢
Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc Cooperative 50.9K 11.85¢
Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 40.1K 13.70¢
Claiborne Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 21.4K 13.00¢
City of Alexandria - (LA) Municipal 19.5K 11.10¢
South Louisiana Elec Coop Assn Cooperative 17.0K 13.48¢
Concordia Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 11.9K 13.36¢
Northeast Louisiana Power Coop Inc. Cooperative 11.5K 10.66¢
Terrebonne Parish Consol Gov't Municipal 11.2K 10.73¢
City of Ruston - (LA) Municipal 9.9K 5.66¢
Jefferson Davis Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 9.1K 14.05¢
Panola-Harrison Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 8.5K 8.84¢
Pointe Coupee Elec Member Corp Cooperative 8.3K 13.42¢
City of Natchitoches Municipal 7.2K 9.25¢
Spruce Finance Behind the Meter 89 7.46¢
Sunnova Behind the Meter 22 17.28¢

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

Rate comparison

Member price against the state

Ranked by price against the 22 utilities reporting residential rates in Louisiana, Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) comes 12th of 22. The state's range runs from City of Ruston - (LA) at 5.66¢ to Sunnova at 17.28¢, so where a household sits inside Louisiana depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 10 other cooperative utilities reporting in Louisiana, whose customer-weighted average is 12.22¢, Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) is close to its own ownership class within the state (-2.5%).

Where this co-op sits on price

Where Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) sits among Louisiana utilities

2024 average residential price across the 22 utilities reporting a rate in Louisiana

11.91¢/kWh 48th affordability percentile More affordable than 48% of 21 other utilities

Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA)

average residential price, equal-width bands

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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) 11.91¢ -
Louisiana (customer-weighted, 22 utilities) 11.76¢ +1.3%
US Form 861 customer-weighted average (1.5K utilities) 17.11¢ -30.4%
Cooperative customer-weighted US avg (622 utilities) 13.78¢ -13.5%

Territory and usage

Scale and consumption

Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) reported 110.7K residential customers, ranking 5th of 22 utilities in Louisiana by customers served and covering 5.2% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 15,853 kWh per customer per year - +10.1% against the Louisiana median of 14,394 kWh , implying a typical annual bill near $1,889.

Rate against consumption: Louisiana utilities

Each dot is one of the 22 Louisiana 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. Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) is highlighted. In Louisiana the cheapest rate belongs to City of Ruston - (LA) (5.66¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to Spruce Finance ($516) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 22 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 050100150 050100150 Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use)
Each dot is one of the 22 Louisiana 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. Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) is highlighted. In Louisiana the cheapest rate belongs to City of Ruston - (LA) (5.66¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to Spruce Finance ($516) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists.

Ownership class peers

Cooperative utilities with similar residential prices

Beyond Louisiana, these indexable cooperative utilities report the closest residential averages to Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) in the same Form 861 release. Peer sets differ by ownership class and price, not a shared national list.

Same-ownership utilities outside Louisiana nearest in residential price
Utility State Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Middle Tennessee E M C Tennessee 307.4K 11.76¢
Volunteer Electric Coop Tennessee 104.4K 12.19¢
GreyStone Power Corporation Georgia 139.0K 12.22¢
Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc Texas 405.6K 12.22¢
Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) Arkansas 101.2K 12.25¢

FAQ

Common questions about Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) member rates

How much does Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) charge per kWh?
Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) reported an average residential price of 11.91¢ 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 Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) expensive compared with the rest of Louisiana?
Its average residential price is close to the Louisiana customer-weighted average of 11.76¢ per kWh, a difference of +1.3%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 22 utilities reporting residential service in Louisiana.
What is the average electricity bill for Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) customers?
Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 15,853 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,889 a year, or about $157 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
Who owns Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA)?
EIA classifies Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA) as Cooperative, a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Nationally, the customer-weighted average across Cooperative utilities was 13.78¢ per kWh in the 2024 Form 861 release.

Limitations

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 and comparing utility costs across states .

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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