City of Colorado Springs (CO) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Municipal|EIA utility 3989|Colorado|Bundled
In 2024, City of Colorado Springs (CO)'s residential customers paid an average of 14.45 cents per kWh: $233 million of revenue over 1.61 million MWh of sales across 216,771 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 14.45c figure is calculated
14.45c/kWh = $232,830k revenue / 1,611,075 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything City of Colorado Springs (CO) billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $145 before taxes.
About City of Colorado Springs (CO)'s 2024 electricity prices
City of Colorado Springs (CO) is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 3989. In 2024 it served 216,771 bundled residential customers in Colorado, and its average realised residential price was 14.45 cents per kWh: $233 million of residential revenue divided by 1.61 million MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, City of Colorado Springs (CO)'s 2024 average prices were 9.56 cents for commercial customers (42,408 accounts) and 9.16 cents for industrial customers (1,503 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.29 cents less per kWh than households, a 37% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Colorado, City of Colorado Springs (CO) ranked number 2 of 34 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (216,771) and accounted for 7.79% 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 City of Colorado Springs (CO)'s customers paid 0.47 cents below the Colorado average (-3.2%). 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 City of Colorado Springs (CO) in 2 Colorado counties: El Paso and Teller. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, wholesale marketing, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: WACM.
City of Colorado Springs (CO) is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.
The nearest other utilities in Colorado by service-territory centroid are City of Fountain (17.8 miles away, 13.74 cents), CORE Electric Cooperative (28.2 miles away, 15.04 cents), Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC (34.9 miles away, 17.05 cents), Mountain View Elec Assn, Inc (42.9 miles away, 15.52 cents), and Public Service Co of Colorado (45.1 miles away, 15.05 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 216,771 | 1,611,075 | 232,830 | 14.45 |
| Commercial | 42,408 | 1,224,952 | 117,136 | 9.56 |
| Industrial | 1,503 | 1,811,428 | 165,911 | 9.16 |
Counties served in Colorado (2)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Colorado
- EIA utility number
- 3989
- Ownership type
- Municipal
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Colorado
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (CO, price basis)
- 216,771
- Residential accounts served (CO)
- 216,771
- All accounts, all sectors (CO)
- 260,682
- Residential price, 2024
- 14.45 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 9.56 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 9.16 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 1.61 million MWh
- Residential revenue
- $233 million
- Rank in Colorado by residential accounts served
- 2 of 34
- Share of Colorado residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 7.79%
- Colorado average, 2024
- 14.92 c/kWh
- Counties served (CO)
- 2
- NERC region
- WECC
- Balancing authority
- WACM
- Reported activities
- Generation, Transmission, Buying Transmission, Distribution, Wholesale Marketing, Bundled
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].