Black Hills Colorado Electric Rates, Bills and Service Area

Black Hills Colorado Electric reported 97,888 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 507 kWh a month on average at 18.71 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 23 Colorado utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Black Hills Colorado Electric ranks 22 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 Black Hills Colorado Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 7 counties in Colorado. 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, Black Hills Colorado Electric reported an average of 95 minutes without power per customer and 0.90 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 105 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Black Hills Colorado Electric had about 33 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 105 minutes and 0.90 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 95 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. Black Hills Colorado Electric 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 9,803 residential net-metered systems on the Black Hills Colorado Electric grid in 2025, with 64.4 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 Colorado, that review is done by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.

Black Hills Colorado Electric is an investor-owned utility based in Colorado.

By residential customers, Black Hills Colorado Electric ranks 5th of the 28 utilities that report homes in Colorado, with about 3.8% of the state's homes. Colorado has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Black Hills Colorado Electric with its type, so the state average of 15.69 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $94.77 a month, an average Black Hills Colorado Electric home pays about $102 a year less than the Colorado average of $103.30, and uses 152 kWh a month less. Black Hills Colorado Electric lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 9,803 of its residential customers use net metering, or 100.1 per 1,000 homes, against 76.1 for Colorado as a whole.

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

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