ALLETE Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Explained

ALLETE reported 126,520 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 673 kWh a month on average at 15.86 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 32 Minnesota utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, ALLETE ranks 19 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where ALLETE has distribution equipment. That covers 17 counties in Minnesota. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, ALLETE reported an average of 102 minutes without power per customer and 1.09 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 94 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

ALLETE had about 25 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Minnesota figure across its utilities was 93 minutes. One interruption lasting 94 minutes and 1.09 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 102 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. ALLETE reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 20,056 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 1,210 residential net-metered systems on the ALLETE grid in 2025, with 11.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Minnesota, that review is done by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.

ALLETE is an investor-owned utility based in Minnesota.

ALLETE operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, ALLETE ranks 3rd of the 43 utilities that report homes in Minnesota, with about 4.9% of the state's homes. Minnesota has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare ALLETE with its type, so the state average of 15.83 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $106.80 a month, an average ALLETE home pays about $130 a year less than the Minnesota average of $117.67, and uses 70 kWh a month less. ALLETE lists distribution equipment in 17 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,210 of its residential customers use net metering, or 9.6 per 1,000 homes, against 11.3 for Minnesota as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Minnesota with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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