Corn Belt Energy Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Corn Belt Energy reported 34,952 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 949 kWh a month on average at 15.59 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, Corn Belt Energy 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 Corn Belt Energy has distribution equipment. That covers 18 counties 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, Corn Belt Energy reported an average of 155 minutes without power per customer and 7.55 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 21 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Corn Belt Energy had about 28 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Illinois figure across its utilities was 62 minutes. One interruption lasting 21 minutes and 7.55 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 155 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. Corn Belt Energy reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 521 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 724 residential net-metered systems on the Corn Belt Energy grid in 2025, with 8.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Corn Belt Energy is an electric cooperative based in Illinois.

Corn Belt Energy 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. Corn Belt Energy is 5th by size and serves about 0.64% of the state's homes. Corn Belt Energy lists distribution equipment in 18 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 724 of its residential customers use net metering, or 20.7 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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