CORE Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

CORE Electric Cooperative reported 168,587 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 843 kWh a month on average at 15.62 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, CORE Electric Cooperative ranks 11 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 CORE Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 11 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, CORE Electric Cooperative reported an average of 52 minutes without power per customer and 0.57 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 92 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

CORE Electric Cooperative had about 75 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 92 minutes and 0.57 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 52 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. CORE Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 89 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 10,448 residential net-metered systems on the CORE Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 59.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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CORE Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Colorado.

By residential customers, CORE Electric Cooperative ranks 3rd of the 28 utilities that report homes in Colorado, with about 6.5% of the state's homes. Its price of 15.62 cents per kWh is about the same as the median of 19 other cooperatives in Colorado (15.71 cents). Over a year, the typical CORE Electric Cooperative bill runs about $341 above the state average, with monthly use 185 kWh higher. CORE Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 11 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 10,448 of its residential customers use net metering, or 62.0 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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