Colorado Springs Utilities Rates, Bills and Service Area

Colorado Springs Utilities reported 220,059 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 602 kWh a month on average at 15.43 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, Colorado Springs Utilities ranks 10 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 Colorado Springs Utilities has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties 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, Colorado Springs Utilities reported an average of 41 minutes without power per customer and 0.68 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 60 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Colorado Springs Utilities had about 87 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 60 minutes and 0.68 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 41 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. Colorado Springs Utilities reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 11,119 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 9,965 residential net-metered systems on the Colorado Springs Utilities grid in 2025, with 46.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Colorado Springs Utilities is a municipal utility based in Colorado.

By residential customers, Colorado Springs Utilities ranks 2nd of the 28 utilities that report homes in Colorado, with about 8.5% of the state's homes. Its price of 15.43 cents per kWh is 1.39 cents above the median of 5 other municipal utilities in Colorado (14.05 cents). Over a year, the typical Colorado Springs Utilities bill runs about $125 below the state average, with monthly use 56 kWh lower. Colorado Springs Utilities lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 9,965 of its residential customers use net metering, or 45.3 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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