City of Fort Collins Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Fort Collins reported 71,804 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 610 kWh a month on average at 14.34 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, City of Fort Collins ranks 6 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 Fort Collins has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county 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, City of Fort Collins reported an average of 8 minutes without power per customer and 0.13 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 62 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Fort Collins had about 119 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 62 minutes and 0.13 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 8 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 Fort Collins reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 71,804 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 4,412 residential net-metered systems on the City of Fort Collins grid in 2025, with 27.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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By residential customers, City of Fort Collins ranks 6th of the 28 utilities that report homes in Colorado, with about 2.8% of the state's homes. Among 5 other municipal utilities in Colorado, the median price is 14.05 cents per kWh, so City of Fort Collins at 14.34 cents is 0.29 cents above its peers. At $87.43 a month, an average City of Fort Collins home pays about $190 a year less than the Colorado average of $103.30, and uses 49 kWh a month less. City of Fort Collins lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 4,412 of its residential customers use net metering, or 61.4 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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