City of Ames Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill in 2025

City of Ames reported 25,123 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 597 kWh a month on average at 12.12 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 11 Iowa utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Ames ranks 3 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 City of Ames has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Iowa. 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, City of Ames reported an average of 21 minutes without power per customer and 0.39 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 54 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Ames had about 106 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Iowa figure across its utilities was 80 minutes. One interruption lasting 54 minutes and 0.39 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 21 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. City of Ames reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 20 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 215 residential net-metered systems on the City of Ames grid in 2025, with 1.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

Of the 22 utilities listed for Iowa, City of Ames is the 4th largest by homes, at roughly 1.7% of the state total. Its price of 12.12 cents per kWh is 1.10 cents below the median of 4 other municipal utilities in Iowa (13.23 cents). Over a year, the typical City of Ames bill runs about $539 below the state average, with monthly use 264 kWh lower. City of Ames lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 215 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.6 per 1,000 homes, against 16.2 for Iowa as a whole.

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

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