Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 20997. In 2024 it served 21,182 bundled residential customers in Montana, and its average realised residential price was 13.35 cents per kWh: $31 million of residential revenue divided by 229,678 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op's 2024 average prices were 12.92 cents for commercial customers (1,859 accounts) and 12.32 cents for industrial customers (255 accounts). Industrial customers paid 1.03 cents less per kWh than households, a 8% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Montana, Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op ranked number 3 of 15 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (21,182) and accounted for 4.03% 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 Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op's customers paid 0.69 cents above the Montana average (+5.5%). 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 Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op in 6 Montana counties: Big Horn, Carbon, Musselshell, Stillwater, Treasure, and Yellowstone. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: WAUW.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.22 cents per kWh for Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op in Montana across 21,471 residential customers, 0.87 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 Fergus Electric Coop, Inc (82.9 miles away, 15.52 cents), NorthWestern Energy LLC (MT) (132.5 miles away, 14.23 cents), Powder River Energy Corp (145.3 miles away, 11.73 cents), Fall River Rural Elec Coop Inc (192.2 miles away, 11.11 cents), and Black Hills Power, Inc. (230.6 miles away, 14.37 cents).