Rochester Public Utilities Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Rochester Public Utilities is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 16181. In 2024 it served 54,943 bundled residential customers in Minnesota, and its average realised residential price was 17.91 cents per kWh: $66 million of residential revenue divided by 369,451 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Rochester Public Utilities' 2024 average prices were 13.56 cents for commercial customers (5,189 accounts) and 12.87 cents for industrial customers (1 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.04 cents less per kWh than households, a 28% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Minnesota, Rochester Public Utilities ranked number 6 of 47 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (54,943) and accounted for 1.67% 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 Rochester Public Utilities' customers paid 2.46 cents above the Minnesota average (+15.9%). 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 Rochester Public Utilities in 1 Minnesota county: Olmsted. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region and the MISO market, and reported generation, transmission, distribution, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: MISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 18.58 cents per kWh for Rochester Public Utilities in Minnesota across 55,728 residential customers, 0.67 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 People's Cooperative Services (4.9 miles away, 16.70 cents), City of Austin (MN) (28.9 miles away, 15.34 cents), Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative (33.1 miles away, 15.15 cents), MiEnergy Cooperative (39.7 miles away, 16.56 cents), and City of Owatonna (MN) (40.3 miles away, 15.27 cents).