Capital Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Capital Electric Cooperative reported 19,650 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,032 kWh a month on average at 13.53 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 10 North Dakota utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Capital Electric Cooperative ranks 9 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 Capital Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 5 counties in North Dakota. 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, Capital Electric Cooperative reported an average of 33 minutes without power per customer and 0.36 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 93 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Capital Electric Cooperative had about 94 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Dakota figure across its utilities was 75 minutes. One interruption lasting 93 minutes and 0.36 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 33 minute total.

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

• Time-of-use pricing. Capital 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for Capital Electric Cooperative in 2025. How net metering works.

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

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Capital Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in North Dakota.

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

North Dakota has 14 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Capital Electric Cooperative is 4th by size and serves about 4.9% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.53 cents per kWh is 2.47 cents above the median of 12 other cooperatives in North Dakota (11.06 cents). Capital Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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

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