MiEnergy Cooperative Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

MiEnergy Cooperative reported 21,343 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 995 kWh a month on average at 16.99 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 32 Minnesota utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, MiEnergy Cooperative ranks 27 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of MiEnergy Cooperative's states together. A utility with a large territory can have different rates in different places.

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 MiEnergy Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in Minnesota, Iowa. 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, MiEnergy Cooperative reported an average of 79 minutes without power per customer and 0.69 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 116 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

MiEnergy Cooperative had about 48 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Minnesota figure across its utilities was 93 minutes. One interruption lasting 116 minutes and 0.69 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 79 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. MiEnergy Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 64 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 854 residential net-metered systems on the MiEnergy Cooperative grid in 2025, with 13.8 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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MiEnergy Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Minnesota, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

MiEnergy 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 43 utilities listed for Minnesota, MiEnergy Cooperative is the 15th largest by homes, at roughly 0.59% of the state total. Among 23 other cooperatives in Minnesota, the median price is 14.75 cents per kWh, so MiEnergy Cooperative at 16.99 cents is 2.23 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical MiEnergy Cooperative bill runs about $616 above the state average, with monthly use 252 kWh higher. MiEnergy Cooperative reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Minnesota, for comparisons. 854 of its residential customers use net metering, or 40.0 per 1,000 homes, against 11.3 for Minnesota as a whole.

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

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