East Central Energy Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 5574|Minnesota + 1 more|Bundled
In 2024, East Central Energy's residential customers paid an average of 16.89 cents per kWh: $92 million of revenue over 543,737 MWh of sales across 55,250 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 16.89c figure is calculated
16.89c/kWh = $91,815k revenue / 543,737 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything East Central Energy 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 $169 before taxes.
About East Central Energy's 2024 electricity prices
East Central Energy is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 5574. In 2024 it served 55,250 bundled residential customers in Minnesota (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 16.89 cents per kWh: $92 million of residential revenue divided by 543,737 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, East Central Energy's 2024 average prices were 12.38 cents for commercial customers (6,589 accounts) and 8.32 cents for industrial customers (184 accounts). Industrial customers paid 8.57 cents less per kWh than households, a 51% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Minnesota, East Central Energy ranked number 5 of 47 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (55,250) and accounted for 2.46% 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 East Central Energy's customers paid 1.44 cents above the Minnesota average (+9.3%). 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 East Central Energy in 10 Minnesota counties: Aitkin, Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pine, Sherburne, and Washington. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Wisconsin (5,182 residential customers at 16.65 cents). On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region, 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 17.63 cents per kWh for East Central Energy in Minnesota across 55,839 residential customers, 0.74 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 Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co (27.7 miles away, 13.84 cents), Connexus Energy (36 miles away, 13.66 cents), Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative (44.6 miles away, 17.58 cents), City of Anoka (50.8 miles away, 15.88 cents), and City of Elk River (54 miles away, 15.83 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 55,250 | 543,737 | 91,815 | 16.89 |
| Commercial | 6,589 | 262,442 | 32,481 | 12.38 |
| Industrial | 184 | 111,872 | 9,303 | 8.32 |
Counties served in Minnesota (10)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
| Wisconsin Bundled | 5,182 res. accounts | 16.65c | #32 of 66 |
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Minnesota: 17.63c/kWh (+0.74c vs 2024 final), 55,839 residential customers; commercial 13.29c; industrial 9.08c. 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
- 5574
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Minnesota
- States with retail sales
- MN, WI
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (MN, price basis)
- 55,250
- Residential accounts served (MN)
- 55,250
- All accounts, all sectors (MN)
- 62,023
- Residential price, 2024
- 16.89 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 12.38 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 8.32 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 543,737 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $92 million
- Rank in Minnesota by residential accounts served
- 5 of 47
- Share of Minnesota residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 2.46%
- Minnesota average, 2024
- 15.45 c/kWh
- Counties served (MN)
- 10
- NERC region
- MRO
- Balancing authority
- MISO
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 17.63 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- +0.74 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].