Beltrami Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Beltrami Electric Cooperative reported 20,929 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,157 kWh a month on average at 15.47 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, Beltrami Electric Cooperative ranks 17 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 Beltrami Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 6 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, Beltrami Electric Cooperative reported an average of 90 minutes without power per customer and 0.92 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 98 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Beltrami Electric Cooperative had about 38 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Minnesota figure across its utilities was 93 minutes. One interruption lasting 98 minutes and 0.92 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 90 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. Beltrami Electric Cooperative does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 124 residential net-metered systems on the Beltrami Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 2.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Beltrami Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Minnesota.

Of the 43 utilities listed for Minnesota, Beltrami Electric Cooperative is the 16th largest by homes, at roughly 0.80% of the state total. Among 23 other cooperatives in Minnesota, the median price is 14.75 cents per kWh, so Beltrami Electric Cooperative at 15.47 cents is 0.72 cents above its peers. At $179.05 a month, an average Beltrami Electric Cooperative home pays about $737 a year more than the Minnesota average of $117.67, and uses 414 kWh a month more. Beltrami Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 124 of its residential customers use net metering, or 5.9 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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