Northern Plains Electric Coop Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Northern Plains Electric Coop is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 13196. In 2024 it served 10,393 bundled residential customers in North Dakota, and its average realised residential price was 10.65 cents per kWh: $24 million of residential revenue divided by 227,714 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Northern Plains Electric Coop's 2024 average prices were 10.93 cents for commercial customers (1,458 accounts) and 8.41 cents for industrial customers (188 accounts). Industrial customers paid 2.24 cents less per kWh than households, a 21% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within North Dakota, Northern Plains Electric Coop ranked number 10 of 19 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (10,393) and accounted for 4.64% 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 Northern Plains Electric Coop's customers paid 0.86 cents below the North Dakota average (-7.5%). 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 Northern Plains Electric Coop in 12 North Dakota counties: Barnes, Benson, Eddy, Foster, Griggs, Kidder, Pierce, Ramsey, Rolette, Stutsman, Towner, and Wells. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: MISO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 10.88 cents per kWh for Northern Plains Electric Coop in North Dakota across 10,472 residential customers, 0.23 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 North Dakota by service-territory centroid are Nodak Electric Coop Inc (50 miles away, 12.08 cents), Capital Electric Coop, Inc (76.7 miles away, 12.31 cents), North Central Elec Coop, Inc (ND) (86.4 miles away, 10.90 cents), Verendrye Electric Coop Inc (87.4 miles away, 10.70 cents), and McLean Electric Coop, Inc (99.7 miles away, 14.25 cents).