Los Alamos County Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Los Alamos County is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 11204. In 2024 it served 7,742 bundled residential customers in New Mexico, and its average realised residential price was 14.15 cents per kWh: $8.7 million of residential revenue divided by 61,406 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Los Alamos County's 2024 average prices were 13.45 cents for commercial customers (838 accounts) and 8.43 cents for industrial customers (1 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.72 cents less per kWh than households, a 40% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within New Mexico, Los Alamos County ranked number 12 of 21 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (7,742) and accounted for 0.84% 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 14.20 cents per kWh, so Los Alamos County's customers paid 0.05 cents below the New Mexico average (-0.4%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for New Mexico is 15.06 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 Los Alamos County in 1 New Mexico county: Los Alamos. On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported generation, buying transmission, distribution, wholesale marketing, retail marketing, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: PNM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.79 cents per kWh for Los Alamos County in New Mexico across 8,395 residential customers, 0.64 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 New Mexico by service-territory centroid are Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc (51.6 miles away, 15.36 cents), Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc (60.3 miles away, 18.18 cents), Continental Divide El Coop Inc (73.7 miles away, 16.02 cents), City of Farmington (NM) (80.3 miles away, 12.69 cents), and Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc (89.4 miles away, 17.16 cents).