Prairie Energy Coop Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Prairie Energy Coop is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 15291. In 2024 it served 3,440 bundled residential customers in Iowa, and its average realised residential price was 14.34 cents per kWh: $7.6 million of residential revenue divided by 52,787 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Prairie Energy Coop's 2024 average prices were 12.18 cents for commercial customers (89 accounts) and 8.64 cents for industrial customers (788 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.70 cents less per kWh than households, a 40% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Iowa, Prairie Energy Coop ranked number 18 of 24 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (3,440) and accounted for 0.36% 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 Prairie Energy Coop's customers paid 0.94 cents above the Iowa average (+7.0%). 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 Prairie Energy Coop in 11 Iowa counties: Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Kossuth, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, and Wright. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported generation and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: SWPP.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.14 cents per kWh for Prairie Energy Coop in Iowa across 3,433 residential customers, 0.20 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 Midland Power Coop (39.1 miles away, 13.60 cents), Heartland Power Coop (39.9 miles away, 12.67 cents), Butler County Rural Elec Coop (IA) (52.3 miles away, 15.43 cents), MidAmerican Energy Co (58.2 miles away, 11.01 cents), and Cedar Falls Utilities (58.5 miles away, 10.42 cents).