Mountain Parks Electric Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

Mountain Parks Electric reported 19,571 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 730 kWh a month on average at 17.54 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, Mountain Parks Electric ranks 20 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 Mountain Parks Electric 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, Mountain Parks Electric reported an average of 122 minutes without power per customer and 1.96 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 62 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Mountain Parks Electric sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 62 minutes and 1.96 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 122 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. Mountain Parks Electric reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 521 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 419 residential net-metered systems on the Mountain Parks Electric grid in 2025, with 3.4 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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Mountain Parks Electric is an electric cooperative based in Colorado.

Colorado has 28 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Mountain Parks Electric is 16th by size and serves about 0.75% of the state's homes. Among 19 other cooperatives in Colorado, the median price is 15.66 cents per kWh, so Mountain Parks Electric at 17.54 cents is 1.89 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical Mountain Parks Electric bill runs about $297 above the state average, with monthly use 72 kWh higher. Mountain Parks Electric lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 419 of its residential customers use net metering, or 21.4 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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