Delta Montrose Electric Assn Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 5086|Colorado|Bundled
In 2024, Delta Montrose Electric Assn's residential customers paid an average of 14.97 cents per kWh: $42 million of revenue over 280,040 MWh of sales across 32,575 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 14.97c figure is calculated
14.97c/kWh = $41,928k revenue / 280,040 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Delta Montrose Electric Assn 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 $150 before taxes.
About Delta Montrose Electric Assn's 2024 electricity prices
Delta Montrose Electric Assn is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 5086. In 2024 it served 32,575 bundled residential customers in Colorado, and its average realised residential price was 14.97 cents per kWh: $42 million of residential revenue divided by 280,040 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Delta Montrose Electric Assn's 2024 average prices were 11.64 cents for commercial customers (4,053 accounts) and 9.17 cents for industrial customers (265 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.80 cents less per kWh than households, a 39% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Colorado, Delta Montrose Electric Assn ranked number 13 of 34 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (32,575) and accounted for 1.35% 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 Delta Montrose Electric Assn's customers paid 0.05 cents above the Colorado average (+0.3%). 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 Delta Montrose Electric Assn in 4 Colorado counties: Delta, Gunnison, Montrose, and Ouray. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported generation and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: WACM.
Delta Montrose Electric Assn 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 San Miguel Power Assn, Inc (33.5 miles away, 16.32 cents), Grand Valley Power (47.5 miles away, 15.94 cents), Holy Cross Electric Assn, Inc (51.9 miles away, 12.04 cents), La Plata Electric Assn, Inc (71.6 miles away, 16.71 cents), and Empire Electric Assn, Inc (83.4 miles away, 15.31 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 32,575 | 280,040 | 41,928 | 14.97 |
| Commercial | 4,053 | 143,282 | 16,679 | 11.64 |
| Industrial | 265 | 118,410 | 10,861 | 9.17 |
Counties served in Colorado (4)
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
- 5086
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Colorado
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (CO, price basis)
- 32,575
- Residential accounts served (CO)
- 32,575
- All accounts, all sectors (CO)
- 36,893
- Residential price, 2024
- 14.97 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 11.64 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 9.17 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 280,040 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $42 million
- Rank in Colorado by residential accounts served
- 13 of 34
- Share of Colorado residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 1.35%
- Colorado average, 2024
- 14.92 c/kWh
- Counties served (CO)
- 4
- NERC region
- WECC
- Balancing authority
- WACM
- Reported activities
- Generation, Distribution
- 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].