North West Rural Electric Coop Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

North West Rural Electric Coop is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 17260. In 2024 it served 9,400 bundled residential customers in Iowa, and its average realised residential price was 9.26 cents per kWh: $23 million of residential revenue divided by 247,896 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, North West Rural Electric Coop's 2024 average prices were 6.80 cents for commercial customers (926 accounts) and 8.65 cents for industrial customers (62 accounts). Industrial customers paid 0.61 cents less per kWh than households, a 7% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Iowa, North West Rural Electric Coop ranked number 11 of 24 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (9,400) and accounted for 1.71% 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 North West Rural Electric Coop's customers paid 4.14 cents below the Iowa average (-30.9%). 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 North West Rural Electric Coop in 11 Iowa counties: Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sac, Sioux, and Woodbury. 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 9.42 cents per kWh for North West Rural Electric Coop in Iowa across 9,461 residential customers, 0.16 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 Iowa by service-territory centroid are Iowa Lakes Electric Coop (28.1 miles away, 13.78 cents), Federated Rural Electric Assn (69.3 miles away, 11.64 cents), Midland Power Coop (99.4 miles away, 13.60 cents), Prairie Energy Coop (102.2 miles away, 14.34 cents), and MidAmerican Energy Co (102.3 miles away, 11.01 cents).