Volunteer Electric Coop Electricity Rates

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 87 utilities reporting residential rates in Tennessee, Volunteer Electric Coop comes 42nd 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 12.93¢, Volunteer Electric Coop is close to its own ownership class within the state (-5.7%).

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

Scale and consumption

Volunteer Electric Coop reported 104.4K residential customers, ranking 6th of 87 utilities in Tennessee by customers served and covering 3.3% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 14,191 kWh per customer per year - well above the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $1,730.

Within Tennessee the median reporting utility sells about 13,595 kWh per customer, so Volunteer Electric Coop customers use +4.4% against their own state's middle. Consumption close to the state middle means bills here track the price ranking fairly directly.

Every utility reporting in Tennessee

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

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

Common questions about Volunteer Electric Coop rates

How much does Volunteer Electric Coop charge per kWh?

Volunteer Electric Coop reported an average residential price of 12.19¢ 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 Volunteer Electric Coop 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 -2.0%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 87 utilities reporting residential service in Tennessee.

What is the average electricity bill for Volunteer Electric Coop customers?

Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 14,191 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,730 a year, or about $144 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.

Who owns Volunteer Electric Coop?

EIA classifies Volunteer Electric Coop 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.