La Plata Electric Association Rates, Bills and Service Area

La Plata Electric Association reported 40,369 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 642 kWh a month on average at 18.33 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 23 Colorado utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, La Plata Electric Association ranks 21 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 La Plata Electric Association has distribution equipment. That covers 5 counties in Colorado. 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, La Plata Electric Association reported an average of 67 minutes without power per customer and 0.92 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 73 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

La Plata Electric Association had about 60 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 73 minutes and 0.92 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 67 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. La Plata Electric Association reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 4,869 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 3,105 residential net-metered systems on the La Plata Electric Association grid in 2025, with 20.6 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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La Plata Electric Association is an electric cooperative based in Colorado.

Of the 28 utilities listed for Colorado, La Plata Electric Association is the 11th largest by homes, at roughly 1.6% of the state total. At $117.64 a month, an average La Plata Electric Association home pays about $172 a year more than the Colorado average of $103.30, and uses 16 kWh a month less. La Plata Electric Association lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 3,105 of its residential customers use net metering, or 76.9 per 1,000 homes, against 76.1 for Colorado as a whole.

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

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