City of Springfield, IL Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

City of Springfield reported 59,366 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 864 kWh a month on average at 13.09 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 18 Illinois utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Springfield ranks 2 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 Springfield has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Illinois. 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 Springfield reported an average of 71 minutes without power per customer and 0.79 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 90 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Springfield had about 56 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Illinois figure across its utilities was 62 minutes. One interruption lasting 90 minutes and 0.79 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 71 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. City of Springfield reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 55 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 568 residential net-metered systems on the City of Springfield grid in 2025, with 5.5 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Springfield is a municipal utility based in Illinois.

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

Illinois has 23 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Springfield is 3rd by size and serves about 1.1% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.09 cents per kWh is 0.49 cents below the median of 6 other municipal utilities in Illinois (13.58 cents). At $113.16 a month, an average City of Springfield home pays about $161 a year less than the Illinois average of $126.59, and uses 148 kWh a month more. City of Springfield lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 568 of its residential customers use net metering, or 9.6 per 1,000 homes, against 22.9 for Illinois as a whole.

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

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