Barron Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Barron Electric Cooperative reported 19,395 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 883 kWh a month on average at 16.02 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 22 Wisconsin utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Barron Electric Cooperative ranks 15 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 Barron Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties in Wisconsin. 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, Barron Electric Cooperative reported an average of 126 minutes without power per customer and 1.18 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 107 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Barron Electric Cooperative sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Wisconsin figure across its utilities was 87 minutes. One interruption lasting 107 minutes and 1.18 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 126 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. Barron Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 4 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 203 residential net-metered systems on the Barron Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 2.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Barron Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Wisconsin.

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

Of the 65 utilities listed for Wisconsin, Barron Electric Cooperative is the 8th largest by homes, at roughly 0.68% of the state total. Its price of 16.02 cents per kWh is about the same as the median of 7 other cooperatives in Wisconsin (15.96 cents). At $141.50 a month, an average Barron Electric Cooperative home pays about $251 a year more than the Wisconsin average of $120.60, and uses 216 kWh a month more. Barron Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 8 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 203 of its residential customers use net metering, or 10.5 per 1,000 homes, against 8.4 for Wisconsin as a whole.

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

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