Providing better service doesn't just make customers happier - it leads to savings in reduced lost time, avoiding running costly backup power, and not having to discard and replace food or medicine that needed refrigeration.
Lower Bills
| Public power residential customers saved an average of $191.97 on electric bills compared to customers of other utilities in 2023. That is $4.2 billion public power residential customers save each year across the U.S. from rates alone. |  |
Less Disruption
| Public power customers also experience 72 more minutes each year not worrying about outages. That translates to 25.6 million hours with power, and $112.5 million that public power residential customers didn't lose to outages. |  |
Serious Savings
| Put together, public power customers save $4,329,087,944 each year. |  |
Higher Community Support
| Public power utilities give 9% more to their communities than for-profit utilities. Across the U.S. that's $286,856,000 more going to public power communities than would have been paid in taxes by investor-owned utilities. |  |
