Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC is an investor-owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 56146. In 2024 it served 89,252 bundled residential customers in Colorado, and its average realised residential price was 17.05 cents per kWh: $104 million of residential revenue divided by 611,784 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC's 2024 average prices were 12.05 cents for commercial customers (12,411 accounts) and 9.89 cents for industrial customers (55 accounts). Industrial customers paid 7.16 cents less per kWh than households, a 42% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Colorado, Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC ranked number 5 of 34 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (89,252) and accounted for 2.96% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 14.92 cents per kWh, so Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC's customers paid 2.13 cents above the Colorado average (+14.3%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Colorado is 17.13 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.

EIA's service-territory file places Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC in 7 Colorado counties: Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Otero, Pueblo, and Teller. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, and wholesale marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: PSCO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 18.71 cents per kWh for Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC in Colorado across 97,888 residential customers, 1.66 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in Colorado by service-territory centroid are City of Fountain (32 miles away, 13.74 cents), City of Colorado Springs (CO) (34.9 miles away, 14.45 cents), San Isabel Electric Assn, Inc (37.4 miles away, 17.78 cents), Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc (56 miles away, 15.52 cents), and CORE Electric Cooperative (63 miles away, 15.04 cents).