Lower Yellowstone R E A, Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Lower Yellowstone R E A, Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 11272. In 2024 it served 3,499 bundled residential customers in Montana (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 8.83 cents per kWh: $4.4 million of residential revenue divided by 49,660 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Lower Yellowstone R E A, Inc's 2024 average prices were 11.89 cents for commercial customers (726 accounts) and 10.22 cents for industrial customers (1,003 accounts). Unusually, industrial customers paid 1.39 cents more per kWh than households.

Within Montana, Lower Yellowstone R E A, Inc ranked number 9 of 15 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (3,499) and accounted for 0.87% 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 12.66 cents per kWh, so Lower Yellowstone R E A, Inc's customers paid 3.83 cents below the Montana average (-30.3%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Montana is 15.14 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 Lower Yellowstone R E A, Inc in 3 Montana counties: Dawson, Richland, and Roosevelt. It also reports 2024 retail sales in North Dakota (799 residential customers at 8.95 cents). On the grid side it operates in the SPP NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority codes: SWPP, WAUW.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 9.20 cents per kWh for Lower Yellowstone R E A, Inc in Montana across 3,247 residential customers, 0.37 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 Montana by service-territory centroid are McKenzie Electric Coop Inc (57 miles away, 7.86 cents), Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop (88.6 miles away, 7.24 cents), Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc (91.8 miles away, 7.88 cents), Roughrider Electric Cooperativ (99.1 miles away, 10.24 cents), and Slope Electric Coop Inc (126.8 miles away, 13.81 cents).