Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 18019. In 2024 it served 26,138 bundled residential customers in Minnesota, and its average realised residential price was 13.88 cents per kWh: $52 million of residential revenue divided by 377,521 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn's 2024 average prices were 11.74 cents for commercial customers (1,803 accounts) and 9.79 cents for industrial customers (617 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.09 cents less per kWh than households, a 29% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Minnesota, Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn ranked number 13 of 47 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (26,138) and accounted for 1.71% 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 Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn's customers paid 1.57 cents below the Minnesota average (-10.2%). 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 Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn in 6 Minnesota counties: Douglas, Kandiyohi, Morrison, Pope, Stearns, and Todd. 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 14.07 cents per kWh for Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn in Minnesota across 26,275 residential customers, 0.19 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 Runestone Electric Assn (26.2 miles away, 14.36 cents), City of Alexandria (MN) (28.9 miles away, 11.57 cents), Willmar Municipal Utilities (39.3 miles away, 12.21 cents), Agralite Electric Coop (44.1 miles away, 13.94 cents), and Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn (47.4 miles away, 14.09 cents).