Flathead Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Flathead Electric Cooperative reported 64,334 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,184 kWh a month on average at 10.04 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 11 Montana utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Flathead Electric Cooperative ranks 2 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 Flathead Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Montana. 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, Flathead Electric Cooperative reported an average of 174 minutes without power per customer and 1.60 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 109 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Flathead Electric Cooperative had about 47 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Montana figure across its utilities was 135 minutes. One interruption lasting 109 minutes and 1.60 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 174 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. Flathead Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 64,334 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 278 residential net-metered systems on the Flathead Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 3.4 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Flathead Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Montana.

By residential customers, Flathead Electric Cooperative ranks 2nd of the 7 utilities that report homes in Montana, with about 11.4% of the state's homes. Flathead Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 278 of its residential customers use net metering, or 4.3 per 1,000 homes, against 23.7 for Montana as a whole.

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

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