ALLETE, Inc. Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

ALLETE, Inc. is an investor-owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 12647. In 2024 it served 125,896 bundled residential customers in Minnesota, and its average realised residential price was 15.66 cents per kWh: $154 million of residential revenue divided by 983,680 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, ALLETE, Inc.'s 2024 average prices were 14.49 cents for commercial customers (26,027 accounts) and 8.95 cents for industrial customers (419 accounts). Industrial customers paid 6.71 cents less per kWh than households, a 43% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Minnesota, ALLETE, Inc. ranked number 3 of 47 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (125,896) and accounted for 4.46% 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 15.45 cents per kWh, so ALLETE, Inc.'s customers paid 0.21 cents above the Minnesota average (+1.4%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Minnesota is 17.52 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 ALLETE, Inc. in 17 Minnesota counties: Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Morrison, and Otter Tail, and 5 more. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region and the MISO market, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, and wholesale marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: MISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 15.86 cents per kWh for ALLETE, Inc. in Minnesota across 126,520 residential customers, 0.20 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 Minnesota by service-territory centroid are Brainerd Public Utilities (26.3 miles away, 12.15 cents), Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative (28.4 miles away, 17.58 cents), Lake Country Power (38.9 miles away, 17.90 cents), Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp (42.9 miles away, 13.33 cents), and Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc (67.2 miles away, 14.40 cents).