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Electric utilities serving Jasper County, Mississippi

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

Jasper County, Mississippi, appears in the Form EIA-861 service territory of 4 utilities for 2024; Mississippi Power Co, Southern Pine Electric Cooperative and Dixie Electric Power Assn are the largest by residential customers statewide.

Their average residential prices ran from 13.44¢ to 14.47¢ per kilowatthour, with a median of 14.14¢, against a Mississippi average of 13.39¢ and a US average of 16.48¢. Each price is the utility's figure for all of its Mississippi customers, not for this county alone.

The median SAIDI they reported was 462.7 minutes per customer including major event days; the median among all Mississippi utilities reporting was 324.6.

The Census Bureau estimates the county's population at 15,785. 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.

4utilities list the countyall on the full form
14.14¢median of their residential pricesMississippi 13.39¢ · US 16.48¢
$161.24median of their monthly billsMississippi $154.83
462.7median SAIDI minutes, all eventsMississippi median 324.6

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 Mississippi operation; EIA publishes nothing at county level.

Utilities and their 2024 figures

UtilityOwnershipResidential customers¢ per kWhMonthly billSAIDI, all eventsSAIDI, no major events
Mississippi Power CoInvestor-owned157,43714.47¢$160.68124.282.2
Southern Pine Electric CooperativeCooperative65,17614.01¢$163.251,003.2321.2
Dixie Electric Power AssnCooperative37,80313.44¢$161.80262.3197.5
East Mississippi Elec Pwr AssnCooperative9,88514.26¢$152.10663.0468.0

Ordered by residential customers in Mississippi. Short-form filers are small utilities that report only totals to EIA, so no residential price is available. 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 Jasper CountyMississippiUnited States
Average residential price per kWh14.14¢ median13.39¢16.48¢
Average monthly residential bill$161.24 median$154.83$142.26
SAIDI, all events (minutes)462.7 median324.6 median184.5 median
SAIDI, without major event days259.4 median238.2 median99.8 median
Utilities counted4401,413

Outage minutes reported

Mississippi Power Co124.2 min
Southern Pine Electric Cooperative1,003.2 min
Dixie Electric Power Assn262.3 min
East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn663 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 Jasper County itself.

Population: 15,785 (U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 estimate). Statewide, residential sales came to 6,294 kWh per resident in 2024.

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Questions and answers

Who provides electricity in Jasper County?

Mississippi Power Co, Southern Pine Electric Cooperative, Dixie Electric Power Assn and East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn 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 Jasper County?

EIA has no county-level prices. The utilities serving the county reported average residential prices of 13.44¢ to 14.47¢ per kilowatthour across their Mississippi customers in 2024; the state average was 13.39¢.

How reliable is power in Jasper County?

Reliability is reported per utility, not per county. The utilities listed reported a median of 462.7 minutes of interruption per customer in 2024 including major event days and 259.4 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.