Lower Valley Energy Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Lower Valley Energy Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 11273. In 2024 it served 22,827 bundled residential customers in Wyoming (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 6.44 cents per kWh: $35 million of residential revenue divided by 550,459 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Lower Valley Energy Inc's 2024 average prices were 6.33 cents for commercial customers (6,028 accounts) and 5.29 cents for industrial customers (246 accounts). Industrial customers paid 1.15 cents less per kWh than households, a 18% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Wyoming, Lower Valley Energy Inc ranked number 3 of 13 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (22,827) and accounted for 18.55% 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 12.47 cents per kWh, so Lower Valley Energy Inc's customers paid 6.03 cents below the Wyoming average (-48.4%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Wyoming is 15.24 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 Lower Valley Energy Inc in 3 Wyoming counties: Lincoln, Sublette, and Teton. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Idaho (1,636 residential customers at 7.23 cents). On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: BPAT.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 6.99 cents per kWh for Lower Valley Energy Inc in Wyoming across 23,172 residential customers, 0.55 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 Wyoming by service-territory centroid are City of Idaho Falls (ID) (46.3 miles away, 9.25 cents), Fall River Rural Elec Coop Inc (86.9 miles away, 11.11 cents), High Plains Power Inc (142.3 miles away, 13.71 cents), United Electric Co-op, Inc (ID) (145.4 miles away, 7.89 cents), and Raft Rural Elec Coop Inc (170.9 miles away, 10.24 cents).