How does CCEC determine the rates for our electricity and for services provided?
Our electric cooperative must recover its actual costs of purchasing electricity and conducting the business of delivering that electricity to you. Because we are a cooperative, only actual costs are recovered; any profit becomes equity of the membership and may be returned as capital credits. Two separate charges help us recover costs. The cost of the actual electricity purchased for you to use is recovered in a kilowatt-hour charge. Each residential member pays the same amount for each kilowatt-hour they use and only for the kilowatt-hours they actually use. In addition, members also pay a Monthly Minimum Charge (MMC) which helps pay for the cost the cooperative has incurred to build facilities that deliver your electricity and for the cost to run the business every day to make sure the electricity is available to each member when they need it. Our goal is to deliver power to you in the most reliable and cost-effective manner, and recover the costs of doing so in a fair, equitable wa
