Linn County REC Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Linn County REC is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 11053. In 2024 it served 30,323 bundled residential customers in Iowa, and its average realised residential price was 14.23 cents per kWh: $44 million of residential revenue divided by 309,400 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Linn County REC's 2024 average prices were 13.84 cents for commercial customers (4,214 accounts) and 9.16 cents for industrial customers (197 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.07 cents less per kWh than households, a 36% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Iowa, Linn County REC ranked number 3 of 24 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (30,323) and accounted for 2.14% 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 Linn County REC's customers paid 0.83 cents above the Iowa average (+6.2%). 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 Linn County REC in 6 Iowa counties: Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, and Linn. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region and the MISO market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: MISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.18 cents per kWh for Linn County REC in Iowa across 30,992 residential customers, 0.05 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 Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop (30 miles away, 13.56 cents), East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop (32.5 miles away, 13.28 cents), Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop (33.1 miles away, 13.76 cents), Board of Water Electric & Communications (37.9 miles away, 12.63 cents), and City of Independence (IA) (41.1 miles away, 13.82 cents).