Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative reported 43,682 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,012 kWh a month on average at 14.39 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, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative ranks 9 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 Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 9 counties in Minnesota. 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, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 50 minutes without power per customer and 0.53 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 93 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative had about 78 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Minnesota figure across its utilities was 93 minutes. One interruption lasting 93 minutes and 0.53 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 50 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. Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 931 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 524 residential net-metered systems on the Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 6.0 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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Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Minnesota.

Of the 43 utilities listed for Minnesota, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative is the 11th largest by homes, at roughly 1.7% of the state total. Its price of 14.39 cents per kWh is 0.61 cents below the median of 23 other cooperatives in Minnesota (15.00 cents). Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 9 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 524 of its residential customers use net metering, or 12.0 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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