NineStar Connect Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

NineStar Connect reported 18,751 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,258 kWh a month on average at 16.50 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 34 Indiana utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, NineStar Connect ranks 28 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 NineStar Connect has distribution equipment. That covers 4 counties in Indiana. 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, NineStar Connect reported an average of 98 minutes without power per customer and 0.86 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 114 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

NineStar Connect had about 29 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Indiana figure across its utilities was 123 minutes. One interruption lasting 114 minutes and 0.86 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 98 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. NineStar Connect reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 18,751 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for NineStar Connect in 2025. 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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NineStar Connect is an electric cooperative based in Indiana.

NineStar Connect 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, NineStar Connect ranks 20th of the 44 utilities that report homes in Indiana, with about 0.61% of the state's homes. Among 26 other cooperatives in Indiana, the median price is 14.82 cents per kWh, so NineStar Connect at 16.50 cents is 1.69 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical NineStar Connect bill runs about $695 above the state average, with monthly use 320 kWh higher. NineStar Connect lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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

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