Welcome to Escambia River Electric Cooperative!
We’re glad you’re joining our co-op and hope you are too!
We want to make turning the lights on as easy as possible. Setting up service is simple, whether you’re moving into a new house or building your dream home. Simply call our office at (850) 675-4521 or stop by our office in Jay during business hours, Monday through Friday 7:30-4:00.
Online Membership Application
Building A New A Home?
Congratulations! We’ve made it easy for you to estimate the cost of hooking up power to your new home. All new service projects for residential homes include a $100 connection fee. Additional charges may apply for temporary service and underground service.
For an official quote, call (850) 675-4521.
Modifying Your Service
If you’re an existing member, but want to add power to your pole barn, upgrade to underground service, or remodel and move your meter – we’re happy to help! These unique projects require a little extra attention and a non-refundable $150 construction deposit that goes toward your project. Call our office at (850) 675-4521 so we can begin your service order.
Commercial & Non-Residential Projects
Need power connected to your business, housing development, or camper? No sweat, we can make it happen!
With so many different possibilities, it’s best to give us a call at (850) 675-4521 so we can talk through your project and give you a personalized quote.
Stopping Your Service
We’re sad to see you go! Closing your account is pretty painless. Call our office at (850) 675-4521 during business hours, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. As long as you have a date to end the service and a forwarding address where we can send your last bill, that’s all we need.
More Questions?
Feel free to look at our rate book for a complete list of service rules and any other information you may need! (link View Rate Book & Service Rules)
What Is a Kilowatt Hour (kWh)?
Let’s start by defining a kilowatt hour. Different devices have different wattages: The average microwave, for example, is between 600 and 1,200 watts. To simplify things, let’s say you own a 1,000 watt microwave. If you cook your frozen meals for 5 minutes, and you eat 12 frozen meals a month, then you’ve used your microwave for an hour in total (you should also probably cut down on frozen meals).
Since your microwave is 1,000 watts, and you’ve used it for one hour, you’ve used 1 kilowatt hour for that month (just multiply the wattage by the number of hours used, then divide by 1000).
Here’s another example: If you run a 1,400-watt window AC unit for 8 hours a day, every day of the month, that will use up about 336 kWh for the month. Here’s the math: You used it for a total of 240 hours that month, because 8 hours a day x 30 days = 240. So, multiply the wattage (1,400) by the number of hours used (240), and then divide that by 1,000. Voila! Your AC unit cost you 336 kWh.
Usage
Previous and Present: Most meters keep track of kilowatt hours used with a register that counts in ascending order, until it reaches 99,999 (at that point, it resets). So we just get your actual kWh used by subtracting “previous” from “present.”
Energy Charge: Simply, this is the charge based on how much energy you use.
Power Supply Cost Recovery (PSCR): In the energy industry, financial conditions surrounding power supply can change at the drop of a hat. So while we try to be as accurate as possible with our supply costs every year, sometimes we’re a little off. That’s when we need to adjust our PSCR, because as a non-profit, we’re not allowed to collect more or less than our actual cost of energy.