Roughrider Electric Cooperativ Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Roughrider Electric Cooperativ is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 55959. In 2024 it served 11,183 bundled residential customers in North Dakota, and its average realised residential price was 10.24 cents per kWh: $17 million of residential revenue divided by 163,427 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Roughrider Electric Cooperativ's 2024 average prices were 11.55 cents for commercial customers (3,927 accounts) and 8.48 cents for industrial customers (77 accounts). Industrial customers paid 1.76 cents less per kWh than households, a 17% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within North Dakota, Roughrider Electric Cooperativ ranked number 9 of 19 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (11,183) 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 11.51 cents per kWh, so Roughrider Electric Cooperativ's customers paid 1.27 cents below the North Dakota average (-11.0%). 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 Roughrider Electric Cooperativ in 8 North Dakota counties: Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Mercer, Oliver, Slope, and Stark. On the grid side it operates in the MRO NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: SWPP.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 10.82 cents per kWh for Roughrider Electric Cooperativ in North Dakota across 11,246 residential customers, 0.58 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 Montana-Dakota Utilities Co (38.3 miles away, 11.72 cents), McKenzie Electric Coop Inc (42.4 miles away, 7.86 cents), Slope Electric Coop Inc (47.4 miles away, 13.81 cents), Mountrail-Williams Elec Coop (98.1 miles away, 7.24 cents), and McLean Electric Coop, Inc (98.9 miles away, 14.25 cents).