Dakota Electric Association Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 25177|Minnesota|Bundled
In 2024, Dakota Electric Association's residential customers paid an average of 14.00 cents per kWh: $130 million of revenue over 929,091 MWh of sales across 108,097 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 14.00c figure is calculated
14.00c/kWh = $130,042k revenue / 929,091 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Dakota Electric Association 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 $140 before taxes.
About Dakota Electric Association's 2024 electricity prices
Dakota Electric Association is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 25177. In 2024 it served 108,097 bundled residential customers in Minnesota, and its average realised residential price was 14.00 cents per kWh: $130 million of residential revenue divided by 929,091 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Dakota Electric Association's 2024 average prices were 9.83 cents for commercial customers (8,313 accounts) and 15.56 cents for industrial customers (404 accounts). Unusually, industrial customers paid 1.56 cents more per kWh than households.
Within Minnesota, Dakota Electric Association ranked number 4 of 47 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (108,097) and accounted for 4.21% 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 Dakota Electric Association's customers paid 1.45 cents below the Minnesota average (-9.4%). 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 Dakota Electric Association in 4 Minnesota counties: Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, and Scott. 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 15.63 cents per kWh for Dakota Electric Association in Minnesota across 109,148 residential customers, 1.63 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 Shakopee Public Utilities Comm (20.8 miles away, 15.54 cents), Minnesota Valley Electric Coop (24.2 miles away, 13.98 cents), Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric (34.2 miles away, 15.63 cents), City of Owatonna (MN) (35 miles away, 15.27 cents), and City of Chaska (MN) (38 miles away, 16.28 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 108,097 | 929,091 | 130,042 | 14.00 |
| Commercial | 8,313 | 886,201 | 87,149 | 9.83 |
| Industrial | 404 | 5,853 | 911 | 15.56 |
Counties served in Minnesota (4)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Minnesota: 15.63c/kWh (+1.63c vs 2024 final), 109,148 residential customers; commercial 11.37c; industrial 16.85c. Published 4 August 2026. EIA marks this file "not fully edited, use with caution"; the 2024 final figures above remain the reference.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Minnesota
- EIA utility number
- 25177
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Minnesota
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (MN, price basis)
- 108,097
- Residential accounts served (MN)
- 108,097
- All accounts, all sectors (MN)
- 116,814
- Residential price, 2024
- 14.00 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 9.83 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 15.56 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 929,091 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $130 million
- Rank in Minnesota by residential accounts served
- 4 of 47
- Share of Minnesota residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 4.21%
- Minnesota average, 2024
- 15.45 c/kWh
- Counties served (MN)
- 4
- NERC region
- MRO
- RTO / ISO
- MISO
- Balancing authority
- MISO
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 15.63 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- +1.63 c/kWh
- 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].