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City of Idaho Falls Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with City of Idaho Falls, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

29 thousand

29,403 homes

Average price

9.60 cents

Idaho average 11.83

Average bill

$88.86

Per month at 925 kWh

Price rank

3 of 10

Lowest to highest in Idaho

City of Idaho Falls rates and average bill

City of Idaho Falls reported 29,403 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 925 kWh a month on average at 9.60 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 10 Idaho utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Idaho Falls ranks 3 from the lowest price.

City of Idaho Falls compared with Idaho and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
City of Idaho Falls9.60925$88.86
Idaho (all utilities)11.83933$110.36
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where City of Idaho Falls has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Idaho. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Idaho (1 county)

Bonneville

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Reliability

For 2025, City of Idaho Falls reported an average of 17 minutes without power per customer and 0.20 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 84 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Idaho Falls had about 111 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Idaho figure across its utilities was 143 minutes. One interruption lasting 84 minutes and 0.20 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 17 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. City of Idaho Falls 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 254 residential net-metered systems on the City of Idaho Falls grid in 2025, with 1.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Idaho Public Utilities Commission.

City of Idaho Falls is a municipal utility based in Idaho.

City of Idaho Falls compared with Idaho

Idaho has 7 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Idaho Falls is 3rd by size and serves about 3.3% of the state's homes. Idaho has too few other municipal utilities with reported prices to compare City of Idaho Falls with its type, so the state average of 11.83 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. City of Idaho Falls lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 254 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.6 per 1,000 homes, against 27.7 for Idaho as a whole.

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

Other Idaho utilities

Utilities in Idaho close in size to City of Idaho Falls
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
City of Idaho FallsMunicipal29,4039.60
Inland Power and LightCooperative44,5269.56
Kootenai Electric CooperativeCooperative31,09713.43
Lower Valley EnergyCooperative24,8357.03
Northern LightsCooperative22,89012.32
Fall River Rural Electric CooperativeCooperative17,82411.10

See every one on the electric companies in Idaho page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not City of Idaho Falls and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

City of Idaho Falls questions

What is the average residential electric rate for City of Idaho Falls?

City of Idaho Falls residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 9.60 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 925 kWh a month and an average bill of $88.86 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Idaho average was 11.83 cents.

How many customers does City of Idaho Falls have?

EIA reports about 29,403 residential customers for City of Idaho Falls in 2025.

Who regulates City of Idaho Falls?

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it. See the regulator for Idaho on the Idaho state page.

How reliable is City of Idaho Falls?

For 2025, City of Idaho Falls reported an average of 17 minutes of outage per customer and 0.20 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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