Madison Gas and Electric Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

Madison Gas and Electric reported 148,482 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 505 kWh a month on average at 21.11 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 22 Wisconsin utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Madison Gas and Electric ranks 22 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 Madison Gas and Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Wisconsin. 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, Madison Gas and Electric reported an average of 27 minutes without power per customer and 0.28 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 97 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Madison Gas and Electric had about 100 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Wisconsin figure across its utilities was 87 minutes. One interruption lasting 97 minutes and 0.28 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 27 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. Madison Gas and Electric reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 862 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 2,677 residential net-metered systems on the Madison Gas and Electric grid in 2025, with 17.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Wisconsin, that review is done by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.

Madison Gas and Electric is an investor-owned utility based in Wisconsin.

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

By residential customers, Madison Gas and Electric ranks 5th of the 65 utilities that report homes in Wisconsin, with about 5.2% of the state's homes. Its price of 21.11 cents per kWh is 4.72 cents above the median of 9 other investor-owned utilities in Wisconsin (16.38 cents). At $106.58 a month, an average Madison Gas and Electric home pays about $168 a year less than the Wisconsin average of $120.60, and uses 162 kWh a month less. Madison Gas and Electric lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 2,677 of its residential customers use net metering, or 18.0 per 1,000 homes, against 8.4 for Wisconsin as a whole.

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

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