Houlton Water Company Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Municipal|EIA utility 8883|Maine|Bundled + Delivery
In 2024, Houlton Water Company's residential customers paid an average of 11.95 cents per kWh: $4.1 million of revenue over 34,513 MWh of sales across 3,907 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 11.95c figure is calculated
11.95c/kWh = $4,124k revenue / 34,513 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Houlton Water Company 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 $120 before taxes.
About Houlton Water Company's 2024 electricity prices
Houlton Water Company is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 8883. In 2024 it served 3,907 bundled residential customers in Maine, and its average realised residential price was 11.95 cents per kWh: $4.1 million of residential revenue divided by 34,513 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Houlton Water Company's 2024 average prices were 12.05 cents for commercial customers (1,509 accounts) and 10.31 cents for industrial customers (77 accounts). Industrial customers paid 1.64 cents less per kWh than households, a 14% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service. Maine allows retail choice, so the customer base splits two ways: 3,907 residential customers took bundled service (energy plus delivery) at 11.95 cents per kWh, while 0 bought their energy from a competitive supplier and paid Houlton Water Company only for delivery, which averaged not reported for the wires portion.
Within Maine, Houlton Water Company ranked number 4 of 5 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (3,907) and accounted for 0.70% 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 24.29 cents per kWh, so Houlton Water Company's customers paid 12.34 cents below the Maine average (-50.8%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Maine is 29.59 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 Houlton Water Company in 1 Maine county: Aroostook. On the grid side it operates in the NPCC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: NBSO.
Houlton Water Company is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.
The nearest other utilities in Maine by service-territory centroid are Eastern Maine Electric Coop (71.7 miles away, 17.06 cents), Versant Power (94.2 miles away, 28.08 cents), Town of Madison (ME) (105.3 miles away, 15.16 cents), and Central Maine Power Co (160.7 miles away, 23.43 cents). Other Maine utilities of similar size include MP2 Energy LLC (39,395 residential accounts served, 14.65 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 3,907 | 34,513 | 4,124 | 11.95 |
| Commercial | 1,509 | 20,209 | 2,436 | 12.05 |
| Industrial | 77 | 22,583 | 2,328 | 10.31 |
Bundled service vs delivery-only customers
Counties served in Maine (1)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Maine
- EIA utility number
- 8883
- Ownership type
- Municipal
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Maine
- Service type
- Bundled + Delivery (Part A, C)
- Bundled residential customers (ME, price basis)
- 3,907
- Residential accounts served (ME)
- 3,907
- All accounts, all sectors (ME)
- 5,496
- Residential price, 2024
- 11.95 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 12.05 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 10.31 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 34,513 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $4.1 million
- Delivery-only residential customers
- 0
- Rank in Maine by residential accounts served
- 4 of 5
- Share of Maine residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.70%
- Maine average, 2024
- 24.29 c/kWh
- Counties served (ME)
- 1
- NERC region
- NPCC
- Balancing authority
- NBSO
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- 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].