City Utilities of Springfield Rates, Bills and Service Area

City Utilities of Springfield reported 105,859 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 866 kWh a month on average at 11.65 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 33 Missouri utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City Utilities of Springfield 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 Utilities of Springfield has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Missouri. 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 Utilities of Springfield reported an average of 80 minutes without power per customer and 1.01 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 79 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City Utilities of Springfield had about 48 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Missouri figure across its utilities was 114 minutes. One interruption lasting 79 minutes and 1.01 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 80 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 Utilities of Springfield 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 752 residential net-metered systems on the City Utilities of Springfield grid in 2025, with 5.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City Utilities of Springfield is a municipal utility based in Missouri.

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

By residential customers, City Utilities of Springfield ranks 5th of the 43 utilities that report homes in Missouri, with about 3.6% of the state's homes. Its price of 11.65 cents per kWh is 2.38 cents below the median of 11 other municipal utilities in Missouri (14.03 cents). Over a year, the typical City Utilities of Springfield bill runs about $446 below the state average, with monthly use 172 kWh lower. City Utilities of Springfield lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 752 of its residential customers use net metering, or 7.1 per 1,000 homes, against 12.8 for Missouri as a whole.

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

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