Montana-Dakota Utilities Co Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Montana-Dakota Utilities Co is an investor-owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 12199. In 2024 it served 79,354 bundled residential customers in North Dakota (its largest state of 4), and its average realised residential price was 11.72 cents per kWh: $90 million of residential revenue divided by 767,257 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Montana-Dakota Utilities Co's 2024 average prices were 5.84 cents for commercial customers (14,799 accounts) and 7.65 cents for industrial customers (85 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.07 cents less per kWh than households, a 35% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within North Dakota, Montana-Dakota Utilities Co ranked number 2 of 19 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (79,354) and accounted for 15.62% 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 11.51 cents per kWh, so Montana-Dakota Utilities Co's customers paid 0.21 cents above the North Dakota average (+1.8%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for North Dakota is 14.12 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 Montana-Dakota Utilities Co in 29 North Dakota counties: Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide, Dunn, Emmons, Golden Valley, and Grant, and 17 more. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Montana (19,616 residential customers at 12.89 cents), Wyoming (14,706 residential customers at 11.77 cents), and South Dakota (6,367 residential customers at 14.59 cents). On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region and the Southwest Power Pool and MISO markets, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority codes: MISO, SWPP, WACM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 11.06 cents per kWh for Montana-Dakota Utilities Co in North Dakota across 79,711 residential customers, 0.66 cents lower 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 North Dakota by service-territory centroid are Roughrider Electric Cooperativ (38.3 miles away, 10.24 cents), Slope Electric Coop Inc (55.5 miles away, 13.81 cents), Capital Electric Coop, Inc (78.2 miles away, 12.31 cents), McKenzie Electric Coop Inc (80.4 miles away, 7.86 cents), and McLean Electric Coop, Inc (96.4 miles away, 14.25 cents).