Brainerd Public Utilities Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Municipal|EIA utility 2138|Minnesota|Bundled
In 2024, Brainerd Public Utilities' residential customers paid an average of 12.15 cents per kWh: $6.3 million of revenue over 52,218 MWh of sales across 6,956 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 12.15c figure is calculated
12.15c/kWh = $6,343k revenue / 52,218 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Brainerd Public Utilities 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 $122 before taxes.
About Brainerd Public Utilities' 2024 electricity prices
Brainerd Public Utilities is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 2138. In 2024 it served 6,956 bundled residential customers in Minnesota, and its average realised residential price was 12.15 cents per kWh: $6.3 million of residential revenue divided by 52,218 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Brainerd Public Utilities' 2024 average prices were 7.55 cents for commercial customers (1,349 accounts).
Within Minnesota, Brainerd Public Utilities ranked number 34 of 47 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (6,956) and accounted for 0.24% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 15.45 cents per kWh, so Brainerd Public Utilities' customers paid 3.30 cents below the Minnesota average (-21.4%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Minnesota is 17.52 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.
EIA's service-territory file places Brainerd Public Utilities in 1 Minnesota county: Crow Wing. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region and the MISO market, and reported generation, distribution, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: MISO.
Brainerd Public Utilities is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.
The nearest other utilities in Minnesota by service-territory centroid are Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp (17.1 miles away, 13.33 cents), Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative (20.2 miles away, 17.58 cents), ALLETE, Inc. (26.3 miles away, 15.66 cents), Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn (60.1 miles away, 13.44 cents), and East Central Energy (64.1 miles away, 16.89 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 6,956 | 52,218 | 6,343 | 12.15 |
| Commercial | 1,349 | 278,324 | 21,007 | 7.55 |
Counties served in Minnesota (1)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Minnesota
- EIA utility number
- 2138
- Ownership type
- Municipal
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Minnesota
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (MN, price basis)
- 6,956
- Residential accounts served (MN)
- 6,956
- All accounts, all sectors (MN)
- 8,305
- Residential price, 2024
- 12.15 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 7.55 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 52,218 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $6.3 million
- Rank in Minnesota by residential accounts served
- 34 of 47
- Share of Minnesota residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.24%
- Minnesota average, 2024
- 15.45 c/kWh
- Counties served (MN)
- 1
- NERC region
- MRO
- RTO / ISO
- MISO
- Balancing authority
- MISO
- Reported activities
- Generation, Distribution, Bundled
- 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].