Dakota Electric Association Rates, Bills and Service Area

Dakota Electric Association reported 109,148 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 745 kWh a month on average at 15.63 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 32 Minnesota utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Dakota Electric Association ranks 18 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 Dakota Electric Association has distribution equipment. That covers 4 counties in Minnesota. 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, Dakota Electric Association reported an average of 21 minutes without power per customer and 0.29 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 71 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Dakota Electric Association had about 107 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Minnesota figure across its utilities was 93 minutes. One interruption lasting 71 minutes and 0.29 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 21 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. Dakota Electric Association reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 17 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 1,742 residential net-metered systems on the Dakota Electric Association grid in 2025, with 17.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

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Dakota Electric Association is an electric cooperative based in Minnesota.

Dakota Electric Association operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Minnesota has 43 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Dakota Electric Association is 4th by size and serves about 4.2% of the state's homes. Among 23 other cooperatives in Minnesota, the median price is 14.75 cents per kWh, so Dakota Electric Association at 15.63 cents is 0.87 cents above its peers. At $116.41 a month, an average Dakota Electric Association home pays about $15 a year less than the Minnesota average of $117.67, and uses 1 kWh a month more. Dakota Electric Association lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,742 of its residential customers use net metering, or 16.0 per 1,000 homes, against 11.3 for Minnesota as a whole.

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

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