Key takeaways
- EIA's 2024 data lists 1,929 public power utilities and 918 electric cooperatives with bundled retail sales, serving 46,324,933 customers — 32% of bundled retail customers in the 50 states.
- Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota have the most public power utilities; Texas, Minnesota and Georgia have the most co-ops.
- Most are small: many have only a handful of staff, which makes them hard to find in commercial databases and easier to reach by phone.
Choose a state
Counts and customers from EIA's 2024 bundled retail sales data. "Share of state" is the share of the state's bundled retail customers served by public power and co-ops.
| State | Public power | Co-ops | Customers served | Share of state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 36 | 24 | 1,248,847 | 45% |
| Alaska | 28 | 19 | 327,620 | 92% |
| Arizona | 28 | 10 | 1,509,073 | 43% |
| Arkansas | 15 | 17 | 784,810 | 46% |
| California | 47 | 4 | 3,467,758 | 35% |
| Colorado | 28 | 28 | 1,286,722 | 43% |
| Connecticut | 8 | 0 | 76,656 | 6% |
| Delaware | 9 | 1 | 195,740 | 39% |
| Florida | 32 | 16 | 2,984,476 | 25% |
| Georgia | 53 | 42 | 2,654,905 | 49% |
| Hawaii | 0 | 1 | 35,316 | 7% |
| Idaho | 11 | 17 | 161,673 | 16% |
| Illinois | 42 | 26 | 590,922 | 13% |
| Indiana | 71 | 39 | 881,620 | 26% |
| Iowa | 135 | 42 | 466,639 | 27% |
| Kansas | 117 | 28 | 555,918 | 35% |
| Kentucky | 30 | 24 | 1,108,574 | 46% |
| Louisiana | 21 | 12 | 616,195 | 25% |
| Maine | 5 | 2 | 32,659 | 4% |
| Maryland | 5 | 3 | 267,045 | 11% |
| Massachusetts | 40 | 0 | 427,140 | 29% |
| Michigan | 40 | 10 | 659,631 | 13% |
| Minnesota | 119 | 46 | 1,307,619 | 45% |
| Mississippi | 23 | 25 | 947,081 | 59% |
| Missouri | 84 | 42 | 1,259,869 | 38% |
| Montana | 1 | 29 | 228,527 | 33% |
| Nebraska | 140 | 10 | 1,131,497 | 100% |
| Nevada | 7 | 7 | 77,264 | 5% |
| New Hampshire | 5 | 1 | 94,732 | 19% |
| New Jersey | 9 | 1 | 76,575 | 2% |
| New Mexico | 8 | 20 | 305,755 | 28% |
| New York | 48 | 5 | 1,349,863 | 18% |
| North Carolina | 72 | 32 | 1,889,756 | 32% |
| North Dakota | 12 | 21 | 236,101 | 49% |
| Ohio | 85 | 25 | 805,219 | 34% |
| Oklahoma | 61 | 30 | 783,357 | 36% |
| Oregon | 18 | 20 | 549,433 | 26% |
| Pennsylvania | 36 | 13 | 312,299 | 7% |
| Rhode Island | 2 | 0 | 6,997 | 2% |
| South Carolina | 22 | 20 | 1,335,268 | 45% |
| South Dakota | 36 | 30 | 244,787 | 47% |
| Tennessee | 60 | 25 | 3,660,552 | 99% |
| Texas | 72 | 67 | 5,118,264 | 35% |
| Utah | 41 | 8 | 373,511 | 26% |
| Vermont | 14 | 2 | 113,015 | 29% |
| Virginia | 16 | 13 | 872,132 | 21% |
| Washington | 41 | 18 | 2,151,142 | 57% |
| West Virginia | 2 | 2 | 11,725 | 1% |
| Wisconsin | 81 | 24 | 596,205 | 19% |
| Wyoming | 13 | 17 | 146,449 | 41% |
About this data
EIA's "2024 Utility Bundled Retail Sales – Total" table lists every utility that sold both electricity and delivery to retail customers in 2024. We grouped municipal utilities, public utility districts and state-owned utilities as public power, kept cooperatives separate, and left out investor-owned and federal utilities. In states with retail choice, customers who buy energy from another supplier aren't counted.
New to these buyers? Read how public power, co-ops and water utilities buy and see where they meet in our utility conferences list.
Sources
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2024 Utility Bundled Retail Sales – Total (Table 10): eia.gov