Empire District Electric

About Empire District Electric

Empire District Electric is an investor owned organization headquartered in Joplin, Missouri and serving customers in 5 states in the US. A total of 184,969 customers (0.18% industrial accounts, 15.27% commercial accounts and 84.55% residential customers) receive electricity from the company. On average, Empire District Electric charges their patrons a residential electricity rate of 15.40 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 2.30% below the nationwide average rate of 15.76 cents, which ranks the supplier 2161st lowest for average electricity rate out of 2892 suppliers in the country. The company sold 1,172,575 megawatt hours through wholesale channels to other electricity providers in 2022. Electricity generation plants owned by the company generated 68.77% of the megawatt hours sourced by the supplier and an additional 31.23% was purchased on the wholesale market. In 2022 the provider had total electricity related revenue of $739,086,400, with 87.75% from retail sales and 8.90% from wholesale sales.

The average residential power bill for a customer of Empire District Electric is $158.29 per month. The supplier produces a total of 795,915.1 megawatt hours from coal use, which makes them the 145th highest producer in the US out of 3526 electric providers Empire District Electric produces 5,885,950.99 megawatt hours from their production plants, which ranks them as the 163rd largest producer of electricity of all 3526 providers in the nation. Empire District Electric is the 155th largest provider out of 3526 suppliers in the US based on total customer count.