13.59¢
per kWh, 2025
[ Duck River Elec Member / TN ]
Duck River Elec Member electricity rates in Tennessee
CO-OP BOARD SETS RATES · DATA 2025
change in average rate, 2024→2025
+8.7%
vs 2024
71,969
residential customers
+23.3%
since 2020
What your bill becomes
Bill today
No change on file
Difference / month · / year
Estimated at Duck River Elec Member's average effective residential rate (13.59¢/kWh, EIA, all charges included). Your tariff, fees and taxes differ.
Rate history 2015–2025
| Year | ¢/kWh | Change | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10.58¢ | — | 61,658 |
| 2016 | 10.66¢ | +0.8% | 62,267 |
| 2017 | 11.00¢ | +3.2% | 62,999 |
| 2018 | 11.00¢ | +0.0% | 63,885 |
| 2019 | 11.15¢ | +1.4% | 64,887 |
| 2020 | 11.02¢ | −1.2% | 65,872 |
| 2021 | 11.23¢ | +1.9% | 67,631 |
| 2022 | 12.33¢ | +9.8% | 68,879 |
| 2023 | 12.21¢ | −1.0% | 70,272 |
| 2024 | 12.50¢ | +2.4% | 71,342 |
| 2025 | 13.59¢ | +8.7% | 71,969 |
How this compares
13.22¢
Tennessee average, 2025
+2.8%
Duck River Elec Member vs TN 2025 average
−21.1%
vs US 2025 average
#28
priciest in TN
Serves 14 counties in Tennessee: Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Moore, Rutherford, Williamson. 61 ZIP codes.
What the numbers show
Since 2015, Duck River Elec Member's average residential rate has gone from 10.58¢ to 13.59¢ per kWh: +28.4% over 10 years, or about +2.5% a year. It rose in 7 of the 10 years we can compare, and the biggest one-year increase was +9.8% in 2022. The largest drop was −1.2% in 2020.
For a home using 1,180 kWh a month, the Tennessee average, Duck River Elec Member's 2025 rate works out to about $1,924 a year, $52 more than at Tennessee's average rate of 13.22¢. Of the 87 Tennessee utilities in our data with a 2025 price, it is the 28th most expensive.
Duck River Elec Member served 61,658 homes in 2015 and 71,969 in 2025 (+16.7%), about 2% of Tennessee's residential electricity customers.
Who sets Duck River Elec Member's rates
Duck River Elec Member is a member-owned electric cooperative. A board elected by its members sets its rates. In some states the Tennessee Public Utility Commission also reviews co-op rates, but most co-op rate changes do not go through a commission rate case, so watch the co-op's own member notices and board meetings.
Commission contact: Tennessee Public Utility Commission. How we calculate every figure on this page: methodology.
Questions
Is Duck River Elec Member raising rates in 2026?
Duck River Elec Member's rates are set by its member-elected board, not through a rate case at the Tennessee Public Utility Commission, so check its own notices for a change this year. Its average residential rate moved +8.7% from 2024 to 2025.
What does Duck River Elec Member charge per kWh?
Duck River Elec Member's average effective residential rate was 13.59¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA-861, revenue divided by sales, all charges included). Tennessee's 2025 average was 13.22¢.
How much have Duck River Elec Member rates gone up in five years?
+23.3% between 2020 and 2025, against +22.7% for Tennessee as a whole over the latest five-year window.
How many customers does Duck River Elec Member have in Tennessee?
71,969 residential customers in 2025, across 14 counties including Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, according to the EIA-861 survey.
Where do these numbers come from?
Rates and customer counts are from the US Energy Information Administration's annual EIA-861 survey, which every US utility files. Nothing here is a utility bill; use it to understand the direction and size of changes.
Sources
- EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2015–2025 (released 2026-10-07)
- EIA-861M monthly state averages through Jul 2026
- NREL utility-by-ZIP lookup (2024)