Black Hills Power, Inc. Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Black Hills Power, Inc. is an investor-owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 19545. In 2024 it served 60,951 bundled residential customers in South Dakota (its largest state of 3), and its average realised residential price was 14.37 cents per kWh: $81 million of residential revenue divided by 560,837 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Black Hills Power, Inc.'s 2024 average prices were 13.18 cents for commercial customers (13,885 accounts) and 9.43 cents for industrial customers (6 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.94 cents less per kWh than households, a 34% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within South Dakota, Black Hills Power, Inc. ranked number 2 of 21 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (60,951) and accounted for 10.85% 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 12.86 cents per kWh, so Black Hills Power, Inc.'s customers paid 1.51 cents above the South Dakota average (+11.7%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for South Dakota is 15.36 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 Black Hills Power, Inc. in 6 South Dakota counties: Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, and Pennington. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Wyoming (2,018 residential customers at 13.13 cents) and Montana (12 residential customers at 6.96 cents). On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, and wholesale marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: WACM.

Black Hills Power, Inc. is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.

The nearest other utilities in South Dakota by service-territory centroid are City of Gillette (WY) (49 miles away, 12.62 cents), Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc (57.7 miles away, 14.76 cents), Powder River Energy Corp (91.7 miles away, 11.73 cents), West River Electric Assn Inc (95.2 miles away, 14.25 cents), and Montana-Dakota Utilities Co (186.7 miles away, 11.72 cents).