Powder River Energy Corp Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Powder River Energy Corp is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 19156. In 2024 it served 15,406 bundled residential customers in Wyoming (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 11.73 cents per kWh: $25 million of residential revenue divided by 210,375 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Powder River Energy Corp's 2024 average prices were 8.95 cents for commercial customers (7,365 accounts) and 7.18 cents for industrial customers (3,950 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.55 cents less per kWh than households, a 39% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Wyoming, Powder River Energy Corp ranked number 4 of 13 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (15,406) and accounted for 7.09% 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 Powder River Energy Corp's customers paid 0.74 cents below the Wyoming average (-5.9%). 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 Powder River Energy Corp in 5 Wyoming counties: Campbell, Crook, Johnson, Sheridan, and Weston. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Montana (52 residential customers at 12.69 cents). On the grid side it operates in the WECC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: WACM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 12.20 cents per kWh for Powder River Energy Corp in Wyoming across 15,548 residential customers, 0.47 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 Gillette (WY) (44.2 miles away, 12.62 cents), Black Hills Power, Inc. (91.7 miles away, 14.37 cents), High Plains Power Inc (130.5 miles away, 13.71 cents), Yellowstone Valley Elec Co-op (145.3 miles away, 13.35 cents), and Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power (219.1 miles away, 16.96 cents).