Rochelle Municipal Utilities Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Rochelle Municipal Utilities is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 16179. In 2024 it served 5,854 bundled residential customers in Illinois, and its average realised residential price was 13.22 cents per kWh: $6.2 million of residential revenue divided by 46,606 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Rochelle Municipal Utilities' 2024 average prices were 12.03 cents for commercial customers (1,073 accounts) and 10.48 cents for industrial customers (82 accounts). Industrial customers paid 2.74 cents less per kWh than households, a 21% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Illinois, Rochelle Municipal Utilities ranked number 22 of 25 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (5,854) and accounted for 0.10% 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 15.87 cents per kWh, so Rochelle Municipal Utilities' customers paid 2.65 cents below the Illinois average (-16.7%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Illinois is 19.89 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 Rochelle Municipal Utilities in 2 Illinois counties: Lee and Ogle. On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, buying distribution, wholesale marketing, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 13.12 cents per kWh for Rochelle Municipal Utilities in Illinois across 5,993 residential customers, 0.10 cents lower 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 Illinois by service-territory centroid are Commonwealth Edison Co (28.4 miles away, 15.22 cents), Jo-Carroll Energy, Inc (37.8 miles away, 19.79 cents), City of Peru (IL) (43.9 miles away, 12.00 cents), City of Batavia (IL) (45.4 miles away, 14.08 cents), and City of Geneva- (IL) (45.4 miles away, 11.03 cents).