Federated Rural Electric Assn Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Federated Rural Electric Assn is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 6258. In 2024 it served 5,727 bundled residential customers in Minnesota (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 11.64 cents per kWh: $9.7 million of residential revenue divided by 83,557 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Federated Rural Electric Assn's 2024 average prices were 11.00 cents for commercial customers (1,255 accounts) and 7.52 cents for industrial customers (4 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.12 cents less per kWh than households, a 35% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Minnesota, Federated Rural Electric Assn ranked number 37 of 47 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (5,727) and accounted for 0.38% 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 Federated Rural Electric Assn's customers paid 3.81 cents below the Minnesota average (-24.7%). 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 Federated Rural Electric Assn in 7 Minnesota counties: Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles, and Watonwan. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Iowa (53 residential customers at 11.82 cents). On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region, and reported generation and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: MISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 12.81 cents per kWh for Federated Rural Electric Assn in Minnesota across 5,733 residential customers, 1.17 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 South Central Electric Assn (25.2 miles away, 15.20 cents), City of Worthington (MN) (39.7 miles away, 12.08 cents), Iowa Lakes Electric Coop (49.1 miles away, 13.78 cents), City of Lake Crystal (MN) (52.7 miles away, 20.97 cents), and BENCO Electric Cooperative (60.3 miles away, 15.03 cents).