Missouri · Cooperative · serves 37 ZIP codes
Ozark Border Electric Coop rate plans
1 residential plans are currently open to new customers. None of them price by hour, so shifting when you use power won’t change your bill here.
What does Ozark Border Electric cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,603 a year on the cheapest of the 1 plans we can price here — Schedule 1/61: Residential/Farm Single-Phase — and $1,603 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $1,036 | Schedule 1/61: Residential/Farm Single-Phase | $1,036 |
| 1,000 kWh | $1,603 | Schedule 1/61: Residential/Farm Single-Phase | $1,603 |
| 2,000 kWh | $2,738 | Schedule 1/61: Residential/Farm Single-Phase | $2,738 |
The same plan is cheapest at every level of use here, so the answer does not turn on how much you use. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.
What does Ozark Border Electric Coop's residential rate cost?
Ozark Border Electric Coop files a single residential tariff, so there is no plan to choose between — everyone served here is on the same terms. That makes this page short on comparison and long on one question instead: what does that tariff actually do to a bill?
Priced hour by hour across a full year, a small apartment on this tariff comes to about $929 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $1,362 — an effective 19.1¢ and 14.4¢ per kilowatt-hour once the fixed charge is spread across everything used.
With one plan and no hourly pricing, the only lever left is using less. Moving laundry or car charging to the middle of the night changes nothing here, which is worth knowing before you rearrange your evenings for no reason.
Expect the bill to swing with the weather rather than with anything you decide: the same house costs around $144 in July and $92 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.
How Ozark Border Electric compares across Missouri
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 4 Missouri utilities we cover, and Ozark Border Electric is the dearest of the lot at about $1,362 a year; the state median is $1,289. The cheapest, Union Electric Co, charges $1,240 for identical use — a gap set by the address, not by anything either household did.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $929 here against a state median of $785, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $1,707 against $1,650. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 14.4¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Every Missouri utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
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- Fixed charges on your electric bill: what they are and why they matter
The line that makes cents-per-kilowatt-hour comparisons quietly wrong.
- How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong
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Every plan, in detail
Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.