Empire Electric Assn, Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 5862|Colorado + 1 more|Bundled
In 2024, Empire Electric Assn, Inc's residential customers paid an average of 15.31 cents per kWh: $17 million of revenue over 109,300 MWh of sales across 12,899 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 15.31c figure is calculated
15.31c/kWh = $16,734k revenue / 109,300 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Empire Electric Assn, Inc 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 $153 before taxes.
About Empire Electric Assn, Inc's 2024 electricity prices
Empire Electric Assn, Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 5862. In 2024 it served 12,899 bundled residential customers in Colorado (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 15.31 cents per kWh: $17 million of residential revenue divided by 109,300 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Empire Electric Assn, Inc's 2024 average prices were 10.83 cents for commercial customers (2,824 accounts) and 7.15 cents for industrial customers (138 accounts). Industrial customers paid 8.16 cents less per kWh than households, a 53% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Colorado, Empire Electric Assn, Inc ranked number 19 of 34 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (12,899) and accounted for 0.53% 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 Empire Electric Assn, Inc's customers paid 0.39 cents above the Colorado average (+2.6%). 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 Empire Electric Assn, Inc in 3 Colorado counties: Dolores, Montezuma, and San Miguel. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Utah (946 residential customers at 16.26 cents). On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported generation and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: WACM.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 15.68 cents per kWh for Empire Electric Assn, Inc in Colorado across 13,016 residential customers, 0.37 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 San Miguel Power Assn, Inc (49.9 miles away, 16.32 cents), La Plata Electric Assn, Inc (79.5 miles away, 16.71 cents), Delta Montrose Electric Assn (83.4 miles away, 14.97 cents), Grand Valley Power (110.6 miles away, 15.94 cents), and Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (121 miles away, 16.63 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 12,899 | 109,300 | 16,734 | 15.31 |
| Commercial | 2,824 | 146,168 | 15,833 | 10.83 |
| Industrial | 138 | 320,361 | 22,919 | 7.15 |
Counties served in Colorado (3)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
| Utah Bundled | 946 res. accounts | 16.26c | #15 of 19 |
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Colorado: 15.68c/kWh (+0.37c vs 2024 final), 13,016 residential customers; commercial 11.04c; industrial 7.33c. Published 4 August 2026. EIA marks this file "not fully edited, use with caution"; the 2024 final figures above remain the reference.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Colorado
- EIA utility number
- 5862
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Colorado
- States with retail sales
- CO, UT
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (CO, price basis)
- 12,899
- Residential accounts served (CO)
- 12,899
- All accounts, all sectors (CO)
- 15,861
- Residential price, 2024
- 15.31 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 10.83 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 7.15 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 109,300 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $17 million
- Rank in Colorado by residential accounts served
- 19 of 34
- Share of Colorado residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.53%
- Colorado average, 2024
- 14.92 c/kWh
- Counties served (CO)
- 3
- NERC region
- WECC
- Balancing authority
- WACM
- Reported activities
- Generation, Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 15.68 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- +0.37 c/kWh
- 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].