Golden Valley Electric Association Rates and Average Bill

Golden Valley Electric Association reported 40,931 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 567 kWh a month on average at 31.47 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 5 Alaska utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Golden Valley Electric Association ranks 4 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 Golden Valley Electric Association has distribution equipment. That covers 4 counties in Alaska. 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, Golden Valley Electric Association reported an average of 212 minutes without power per customer and 1.96 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 108 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Golden Valley Electric Association had about 84 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Alaska figure across its utilities was 243 minutes. One interruption lasting 108 minutes and 1.96 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 212 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. Golden Valley Electric Association does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 891 residential net-metered systems on the Golden Valley Electric Association grid in 2025, with 4.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Golden Valley Electric Association is an electric cooperative based in Alaska.

Of the 10 utilities listed for Alaska, Golden Valley Electric Association is the 3rd largest by homes, at roughly 13.6% of the state total. Its price of 31.47 cents per kWh is 3.45 cents above the median of 6 other cooperatives in Alaska (28.02 cents). At $178.48 a month, an average Golden Valley Electric Association home pays about $376 a year more than the Alaska average of $147.18, and uses 3 kWh a month more. Golden Valley Electric Association lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 891 of its residential customers use net metering, or 21.8 per 1,000 homes, against 10.9 for Alaska as a whole.

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

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