Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 2652|Iowa|Bundled
In 2024, Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA)'s residential customers paid an average of 15.43 cents per kWh: $9.8 million of revenue over 63,458 MWh of sales across 3,898 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 15.43c figure is calculated
15.43c/kWh = $9,794k revenue / 63,458 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA) 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 $154 before taxes.
About Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA)'s 2024 electricity prices
Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA) is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 2652. In 2024 it served 3,898 bundled residential customers in Iowa, and its average realised residential price was 15.43 cents per kWh: $9.8 million of residential revenue divided by 63,458 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA)'s 2024 average prices were 38.57 cents for commercial customers (10 accounts) and 8.70 cents for industrial customers (1,202 accounts). Industrial customers paid 6.73 cents less per kWh than households, a 44% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Iowa, Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA) ranked number 17 of 24 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (3,898) and accounted for 0.44% 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 13.40 cents per kWh, so Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA)'s customers paid 2.03 cents above the Iowa average (+15.1%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Iowa is 15.93 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 Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA) in 7 Iowa counties: Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, and Franklin. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: SWPP.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.50 cents per kWh for Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA) in Iowa across 3,903 residential customers, 0.93 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 Iowa by service-territory centroid are Cedar Falls Utilities (25.2 miles away, 10.42 cents), Heartland Power Coop (40.7 miles away, 12.67 cents), MiEnergy Cooperative (48.5 miles away, 16.56 cents), City of Independence (IA) (51 miles away, 13.82 cents), and Prairie Energy Coop (52.3 miles away, 14.34 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 3,898 | 63,458 | 9,794 | 15.43 |
| Commercial | 10 | 21 | 8 | 38.57 |
| Industrial | 1,202 | 213,587 | 18,578 | 8.70 |
Counties served in Iowa (7)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Iowa: 14.50c/kWh (-0.93c vs 2024 final), 3,903 residential customers; commercial 42.38c; industrial 9.14c. 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 Iowa
- EIA utility number
- 2652
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Iowa
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (IA, price basis)
- 3,898
- Residential accounts served (IA)
- 3,898
- All accounts, all sectors (IA)
- 5,110
- Residential price, 2024
- 15.43 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 38.57 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 8.70 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 63,458 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $9.8 million
- Rank in Iowa by residential accounts served
- 17 of 24
- Share of Iowa residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.44%
- Iowa average, 2024
- 13.40 c/kWh
- Counties served (IA)
- 7
- NERC region
- MRO
- RTO / ISO
- Southwest Power Pool
- Balancing authority
- SWPP
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 14.50 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- -0.93 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].