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Electric utilities serving Wayne County, Illinois

Utilities that list the county in their Form EIA-861 service territory for 2024, with each one's average price, bill and outage minutes.

Wayne County, Illinois, appears in the Form EIA-861 service territory of 5 utilities for 2024; Ameren Illinois Company, Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (IL) and Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop are the largest by residential customers statewide.

Their average residential prices ran from 15.26¢ to 16.58¢ per kilowatthour, with a median of 16.04¢, against a Illinois average of 15.87¢ and a US average of 16.48¢. Each price is the utility's figure for all of its Illinois customers, not for this county alone.

The median SAIDI they reported was 298.0 minutes per customer including major event days; the median among all Illinois utilities reporting was 131.9.

The Census Bureau estimates the county's population at 15,882. EIA does not publish customers by county, so which utility serves a given address has to be confirmed with the utility or the state utility commission.

5utilities list the county2 on EIA's short form
16.04¢median of their residential pricesIllinois 15.87¢ · US 16.48¢
$173.96median of their monthly billsIllinois $109.99
298.0median SAIDI minutes, all eventsIllinois median 131.9

Average price is revenue divided by sales for the sector and year; it is not a tariff rate. Reliability figures are as reported by utilities to EIA on Form 861 and may use different calculation methods. Figures are for each utility's whole Illinois operation; EIA publishes nothing at county level.

Utilities and their 2024 figures

UtilityOwnershipResidential customers¢ per kWhMonthly billSAIDI, all eventsSAIDI, no major events
Ameren Illinois Company mostly deliveryInvestor-owned1,060,89415.26¢$130.20223.9120.6
Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (IL)Cooperative16,19716.04¢$189.61372.063.7
Wayne-White Counties Elec CoopCooperative11,95716.58¢$173.96——
Clay Electric Coop Inc short formCooperative3,267————
City of Fairfield short formMunicipal3,259————

Ordered by residential customers in Illinois. Short-form filers are small utilities that report only totals to EIA, so no residential price is available; their all-sector revenue per kWh was Clay Electric Coop Inc 15.76¢, City of Fairfield 15.69¢. A utility with no customers shown reported its retail sales elsewhere or delivers power that other companies bill for.

Against the state and the country

Measure, 2024Utilities listing Wayne CountyIllinoisUnited States
Average residential price per kWh16.04¢ median15.87¢16.48¢
Average monthly residential bill$173.96 median$109.99$142.26
SAIDI, all events (minutes)298.0 median131.9 median184.5 median
SAIDI, without major event days92.2 median85.0 median99.8 median
Utilities counted5791,413

Outage minutes reported

Ameren Illinois Company223.9 min
Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (IL)372 min

SAIDI for 2024 across each utility's whole system, including major event days (paler bars: only the figure without major event days was reported). Not a measure of outages in Wayne County itself.

Population: 15,882 (U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 estimate). Statewide, residential sales came to 3,526 kWh per resident in 2024.

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Questions and answers

Who provides electricity in Wayne County?

Ameren Illinois Company, Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (IL), Wayne-White Counties Elec Coop, Clay Electric Coop Inc and City of Fairfield list the county in their Form EIA-861 service territory for 2024. Territories overlap, and a utility may cover only a corner of the county.

What is the electricity price in Wayne County?

EIA has no county-level prices. The utilities serving the county reported average residential prices of 15.26¢ to 16.58¢ per kilowatthour across their Illinois customers in 2024; the state average was 15.87¢.

How reliable is power in Wayne County?

Reliability is reported per utility, not per county. The utilities listed reported a median of 298.0 minutes of interruption per customer in 2024 including major event days and 92.2 minutes excluding them.

Provenance

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 for 2024, final release: service territory file (counties by utility), sales to ultimate customers, reliability and short form files. State and US averages: Form EIA-861M workbook. Population: U.S. Census Bureau. Public domain. To confirm the utility at an address, ask the utility or the state utility commission.