Clarke Electric purchases our power from Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) and their five electricity generation facilities in Iowa. Electricity is distributed to your homes, farms, and businesses through a network of over 1,860 miles of power lines reaching more than 4,800 members/owners.

Please contact us for current rates.

Fees

Membership Fee: A membership fee of $5.00 is required to receive electric service from Clarke Electric Cooperative. We also require a $5.00 record-change fee.

Deposit: A required deposit is based upon the highest bill in the previous 12-month history at the location for which service is requested. The deposit fee may be waived by furnishing Clarke Electric with a written credit reference from your previous power supplier showing 12 consecutive on-time payments. Once Clarke Electric receives 12 consecutive on-time payments, your deposit will be applied as a credit to your account.

Posting Fee: If you fail to respond to a late notice/friendly reminder, and a trip is made to your location to post a 48 hour notice a nonrefundable and nontransferable $50 posting fee will be added to the delinquent amount. This notice states that disconnection of service will take place within 48 hours.

Disconnect Fee: A $50 disconnection fee will be charged to your account if you fail to respond to the 48-hour disconnection notice. Your account will then be disconnected for nonpayment and your electric service terminated. To avoid this action, contact must be made with Clarke Electric's billing department within the 48-hour time period of notification of disconnect.

Reconnect Fee: A $50 reconnection fee will be charged when your service is disconnected for nonpayment. Reconnection is made during the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. You will be charged this $50 reconnection fee for each meter that is reconnected.

After-hours Reconnect Fee: If your service is disconnected for nonpayment, and reconnection is made from      3 pm to 7 pm a $75 reconnection fee will be charged.  Requests for reconnections made after 7 pm will be reconnected the following business day.

Charges

Returned checks: A $20 returned-check charge will be assessed for any checks that are not honored due to "insufficient funds." In addition, your bill will be considered unpaid, and late payment charges will apply.

Late-Payment Charge: A 1.5% penalty will apply if payment is received after the due date printed on the bill.

Availability Charge / Fixed Charge: This recurring monthly fee is charged to every member, regardless of the amount of energy used. It helps offset the cost of maintaining electric service at a location and covers Maintenance of poles, wires, transformers, meters, right-of-way, administration, preparation and mailing of bills and other expenses associated with providing electric service.

Power Cost Adjustment (PCA): This fluctuating monthly adjustment reflects the amount Clarke Electric pays for power above or below the base cost established at the time of our last rate change.

Note: If a line crew is dispatched to service a member's outage, and the outage is found to be no fault of the cooperative or its equipment, a service call fee is charged to the member.

Charges for a service call for outage on the member's side:
Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.………$60.00 (minimum trip)
After hours…………………………………. $150.00 (minimum trip)