Southwestern Electric Power Co late fee
Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas · Investor Owned
Southwestern Electric Power Co charges 5% for a residential electric bill paid late.
- Percentage fee
- 5% of the past-due balance
- Can disconnect
- Yes, for non-payment
- Percentile
- Higher than 51% of US utilities that charge a percentage fee
- Residential customers
- 471,384
Late fees versus bad debt, 2024
- Late-fee revenue
- $5,131,948 (FERC account 450, Forfeited Discounts)
- Written off
- $71,677 (FERC account 904, Uncollectible Accounts)
- Ratio
- 71.6x
Source: US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC Form 1, accounts 450 and 904 (18 CFR Part 101), retrieved via the Public Utility Data Liberation project. Municipal utilities and most cooperatives do not file Form 1, so no ratio is available for them.
Disconnections in 2024
- Disconnections
- 67,498 for non-payment
- Rate
- 14.31 per 100 residential customers
- Final notices
- 642,865
- Reconnections
- 52,651
Counts are disconnection events, not households. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-112. See how this compares.
5% of total monthly bill after due date (SWEPCO, TX rate schedule)
Source: https://www.swepco.com/lib/docs/ratesandtariffs/Texas/TexasRatesChargesandFees_03-31-26.pdf