Great Lakes Energy Coop Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Great Lakes Energy Coop is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 38084. In 2024 it served 120,645 bundled residential customers in Michigan, and its average realised residential price was 19.17 cents per kWh: $170 million of residential revenue divided by 884,220 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Great Lakes Energy Coop's 2024 average prices were 16.40 cents for commercial customers (11,315 accounts) and 9.61 cents for industrial customers (292 accounts). Industrial customers paid 9.56 cents less per kWh than households, a 50% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Michigan, Great Lakes Energy Coop ranked number 3 of 30 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (120,645) and accounted for 2.64% 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 19.30 cents per kWh, so Great Lakes Energy Coop's customers paid 0.13 cents below the Michigan average (-0.7%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Michigan is 22.99 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 Great Lakes Energy Coop in 26 Michigan counties: Allegan, Antrim, Barry, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Clare, Crawford, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Kent, and Lake, and 14 more. 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 20.32 cents per kWh for Great Lakes Energy Coop in Michigan across 123,277 residential customers, 1.15 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 Michigan by service-territory centroid are Cherryland Electric Coop Inc (38.5 miles away, 16.36 cents), Consumers Energy Co (MI) (47.2 miles away, 19.11 cents), City of Traverse City (MI) (57.5 miles away, 12.70 cents), Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) (74 miles away, 18.04 cents), and City of Bay City (MI) (77 miles away, 15.35 cents).