Great Lakes Energy Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Great Lakes Energy Cooperative reported 123,277 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 632 kWh a month on average at 20.32 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 20 Michigan utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Great Lakes Energy Cooperative ranks 17 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 Great Lakes Energy Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 26 counties in Michigan. 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, Great Lakes Energy Cooperative reported an average of 315 minutes without power per customer and 2.07 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 152 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Great Lakes Energy Cooperative had about 188 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Michigan figure across its utilities was 161 minutes. One interruption lasting 152 minutes and 2.07 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 315 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. Great Lakes Energy Cooperative 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 546 residential net-metered systems on the Great Lakes Energy Cooperative grid in 2025, with 4.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Great Lakes Energy Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Michigan.

Great Lakes Energy Cooperative operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 28 utilities listed for Michigan, Great Lakes Energy Cooperative is the 3rd largest by homes, at roughly 2.7% of the state total. Its price of 20.32 cents per kWh is 1.43 cents above the median of 6 other cooperatives in Michigan (18.90 cents). Great Lakes Energy Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 26 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 546 of its residential customers use net metering, or 4.4 per 1,000 homes, against 6.3 for Michigan as a whole.

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

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