Missoula Electric Coop, Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 12692|Montana + 1 more|Bundled
In 2024, Missoula Electric Coop, Inc's residential customers paid an average of 10.50 cents per kWh: $20 million of revenue over 189,571 MWh of sales across 14,686 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 10.50c figure is calculated
10.50c/kWh = $19,911k revenue / 189,571 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Missoula Electric Coop, Inc 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 $105 before taxes.
About Missoula Electric Coop, Inc's 2024 electricity prices
Missoula Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 12692. In 2024 it served 14,686 bundled residential customers in Montana (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 10.50 cents per kWh: $20 million of residential revenue divided by 189,571 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Missoula Electric Coop, Inc's 2024 average prices were 9.60 cents for commercial customers (1,551 accounts) and 8.92 cents for industrial customers (267 accounts). Industrial customers paid 1.58 cents less per kWh than households, a 15% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Montana, Missoula Electric Coop, Inc ranked number 6 of 15 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (14,686) and accounted for 3.33% 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 Missoula Electric Coop, Inc's customers paid 2.16 cents below the Montana average (-17.1%). 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 Missoula Electric Coop, Inc in 6 Montana counties: Granite, Lake, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, and Ravalli. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Idaho (46 residential customers at 10.00 cents). On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported distribution and buying distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: BPAT.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 10.93 cents per kWh for Missoula Electric Coop, Inc in Montana across 14,867 residential customers, 0.43 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 Flathead Electric Coop Inc (59.7 miles away, 9.67 cents), USBIA-Mission Valley Power (67.5 miles away, 8.91 cents), Avista Corp (143.1 miles away, 11.87 cents), Kootenai Electric Cooperative (144.3 miles away, 12.21 cents), and Northern Lights, Inc (147.2 miles away, 11.49 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 14,686 | 189,571 | 19,911 | 10.50 |
| Commercial | 1,551 | 52,803 | 5,069 | 9.60 |
| Industrial | 267 | 15,268 | 1,361 | 8.92 |
Counties served in Montana (6)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
| Idaho Bundled | 46 res. accounts | 10.00c | #13 of 13 |
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Montana: 10.93c/kWh (+0.43c vs 2024 final), 14,867 residential customers; commercial 9.99c; industrial 8.96c. 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 Montana
- EIA utility number
- 12692
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Montana
- States with retail sales
- MT, ID
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (MT, price basis)
- 14,686
- Residential accounts served (MT)
- 14,686
- All accounts, all sectors (MT)
- 16,504
- Residential price, 2024
- 10.50 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 9.60 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 8.92 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 189,571 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $20 million
- Rank in Montana by residential accounts served
- 6 of 15
- Share of Montana residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 3.33%
- Montana average, 2024
- 12.66 c/kWh
- Counties served (MT)
- 6
- NERC region
- WECC
- Balancing authority
- BPAT
- Reported activities
- Distribution, Buying Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 10.93 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- +0.43 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].