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Matanuska Electric Assn Inc in Alaska: 23.37 ¢ home rates, SAIDI and solar
Roughly 71,054 Alaska accounts belong to Matanuska Electric Assn Inc, classed by EIA as cooperative; the residential count is 64,205. Major event days make 0% of its yearly outage minutes (258 with them, 258 without).
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc: 606 kWh a month costs roughly $142 in energy at 23.37 ¢/kWh, -5.8% on the Alaska average of 24.82 ¢.
Major event days make 0% of its yearly outage minutes (258 with them, 258 without).
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc: major event days
Share of SAIDI from major events
0%258 minutes with events, 258 without
Major events weigh on Matanuska Electric Assn Inc: 258 minutes with them, 258 without, so 0% of the total comes from event days, 1.00 times the everyday figure.
SAIFI adds the frequency view: 2.35 interruptions a customer a year, 2.32 times the national median (1.01), with 110 minutes per interruption.
How it compares
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc, 2024
Home
Business
Bill
SAIDI
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc
23.37 ¢/kWh
20.25 ¢/kWh
$142at 606 kWh
258 minSAIDI
Alaska average against this company, which is 2 of 4 on price
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc: +5.0% on 2024 for homes, Alaska +5.1%.
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc home price, 2025
24.54 ¢/kWh+5.0% on 2024, early release
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc SAIDI, 2025
390 min+51% on 2024, early release
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc against Alaska, 2025
-0.1 pointsMatanuska Electric Assn Inc +5.0%, Alaska +5.1%, price in Alaska 26.09 ¢
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc: 24.54 ¢/kWh in the 2025 early release, +5.0% from 23.37 ¢; Alaska as a whole went +5.1%, so Matanuska Electric Assn Inc kept pace with it by 0.1 points. Its SAIDI is 390 minutes against 258 in 2024.
Carbon context
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc serves 64,205 homes in Alaska. At 606 kWh a month that is about 223 kg of CO₂, or 2,671 kg a year, at the Alaska plant rate, state generation and not this utility: Alaska generation mix.
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc charts
Residential price since 2015: 23.37 ¢ in 2024
19.64 ¢ in 2015, 23.37 ¢ in 2024 (+19.0%); Alaska 19.83 to 24.82 ¢.
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc residential price 2015-2024, 2015 to 2024: 10 rows
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc billed homes 19.64 ¢/kWh in 2015 and 23.37 ¢ in 2024, +19.0% in all, and lagged the Alaska average (+25.2%) by 6.2 points. Matanuska Electric Assn Inc's sharpest move came in 2024, +5.5%. The latest year is the high at 23.37 ¢; the low was 19.64 ¢ (2015). 2024: +5.5% here, +3.8% for the Alaska average. SAIDI at Matanuska Electric Assn Inc (major events excluded) rose from 177 minutes in 2015 to 258 in 2024, +46%; worst year 2023 at 386. Matanuska Electric Assn Inc filed SAIDI under the national median in 0 of 10 years; its 2024 figure was 258 minutes, +159 from that year's median. 2022: 1154 minutes with major events, 381 without, the widest gap of any year. Matanuska Electric Assn Inc has 1 cheaper and 2 higher-priced Alaska peers among 4 with 20,000+ homes. Next cheaper, Chugach Electric Assn Inc, bills 21.24 ¢ (-2.13). Next higher-priced, Homer Electric Assn Inc, bills 29.79 ¢ (+6.42).
A trade-off shows up. Customers pay 5.8% less than the Alaska average, yet the 258-minute outage clock runs 2.6x the national median.
Home accounts at Matanuska Electric Assn Inc went from 57,299 in 2015 to 64,205 in 2024, +12.1%. Business customers paid 0.87 times the home price in 2024 (20.25 against 23.37 ¢); the ratio was 0.86 in 2015. SAIFI went from 1.42 in 2015 to 2.35 in 2024, between 1.17 and 3.27.
Outages and home price of Matanuska Electric Assn Inc (EIA utility 11824), 2013 to 2024
Yearly SAIDI at Matanuska Electric Assn Inc: 190 minutes in 2014, 258 in 2024, a rise of 36%. Its best year was 2017 (148 min), its worst 2023 (386 min), across 11 filed years. Against a Alaska median of 225 minutes in 2024, Matanuska Electric Assn Inc was above the middle.
Corrected for inflation, a Matanuska Electric Assn Inc home paid 23.98 ¢/kWh in 2024 against 20.89 ¢ in 2013, +14.8%; the bill itself went 15.11 ¢ to 23.37 ¢ (+54.6%). A home using 1,000 kWh a month paid $2,506 for the year at the 2013 real price and $2,878 at the 2024 price. Place on home price: 9th cheapest of 20 in 2013, 5th of 11 in 2024 among Alaska utilities with 1,000+ homes.
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc outage minutes a customer, 2014 to 2024: 258 in 2024
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc at 258 min in 2024 and the Alaska median at 225.
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc home price since 2013: +14.8% after inflation
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc: 23.98 ¢ in 2025 dollars (solid) and 23.37 ¢ as billed (dashed) in 2024.
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc, EIA utility 11824, year by year among Alaska utilities
Matanuska Electric Assn Inc 2013-2024: 12 rows
Year, Matanuska Electric
¢ billed
¢ in 2025 $
Price place, Matanuska Elec
SAIDI min
SAIFI
SAIDI place, Matanuska Elec
Alaska median SAIDI
2013
15.11
20.89
9 of 20
–
–
–
–
2014
16.72
22.73
9 of 20
190
1.28
–
187
2015
19.64
26.67
10 of 19
177
1.42
3 of 4
164
2016
19.64
26.35
10 of 19
253
2.25
4 of 4
175
2017
20.54
26.98
10 of 18
148
1.17
3 of 5
148
2018
21.38
27.41
10 of 18
220
2.24
4 of 5
147
2019
21.53
27.11
9 of 19
251
1.66
5 of 5
201
2020
21.56
26.82
6 of 12
263
1.72
3 of 5
263
2021
21.41
25.43
5 of 11
239
1.53
3 of 4
234
2022
21.97
24.17
5 of 11
381
3.27
4 of 4
331
2023
22.15
23.41
5 of 11
386
2.48
–
334
2024
23.37
23.98
5 of 11
258
2.35
5 of 5
225
Matanuska Electric Assn , EIA utility 11824: EIA-861, CPI-U.
How big is Matanuska Electric Assn Inc in Alaska, by customer accounts?
71,054 accounts in 2024: residential 64,205, commercial 6,849, industrial 0.
How many cents per kWh does Matanuska Electric Assn Inc charge homes?
In 2024 homes paid 23.37 cents; against the Alaska average that is -5.8%.
What are the SAIDI and SAIFI of Matanuska Electric Assn Inc?
SAIDI 258.1 min and SAIFI 2.35 a year, major events excluded; ratio to the national median 2.59, CAIDI 110 min.
How many net-metered systems connect to Matanuska Electric Assn Inc?
522 installations with 3.3 MW, of which residential installations number 479.
What would a typical Matanuska Electric Assn Inc home pay each month?
606 kWh at 23.37 cents comes to about $142, energy only.
Is Matanuska Electric Assn Inc cheaper than other Alaska utilities?
Rank 2 of 4 in Alaska on price, -5.8% against the state average; 1 charge less than 23.37 ¢.
What share of Matanuska Electric Assn Inc sales do homes buy?
Homes take 59.2% of 788,319 MWh, commercial accounts 40.8%, industrial and other 0.0%; the 6,849 commercial accounts use 46,925 kWh each, 6.5 times a home.
At Matanuska Electric Assn Inc, are smart meters in homes, with a TOU option?
64,845 of 64,845 home meters are AMI, 100.0%. Matanuska Electric Assn Inc offers a home time-of-use rate; 28 customers use dynamic pricing, 0.04% of its homes.
Has Matanuska Electric Assn Inc moved up the Alaska price list since 2015?
2nd cheapest of 4 in 2015, 2nd of 4 in 2024; its price rose 19.0% while Alaska rose 25.2%.
How does Matanuska Electric Assn Inc compare with 3 similar utilities?
Place 2 of 4 on home price at 23.37 ¢ (Alaska cooperatives); median 26.58 ¢, cheapest member 21.24 ¢.
Did Matanuska Electric Assn Inc cut or raise its 2025 home price?
24.54 cents per kWh, +5.0% on the 23.37 of 2024 (EIA early release for 2025).
Utilities with a similar home price
Home prices nearest to Matanuska Electric Assn Inc at 23.37 ¢/kWh in 2024, among companies with a page here, any state.