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Northern States Power Wisconsin Electric Rates and Bills

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Northern States Power Wisconsin, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

230 thousand

230,313 homes

Average price

15.55 cents

Wisconsin average 18.08

Average bill

$112.20

Per month at 721 kWh

Price rank

11 of 22

Lowest to highest in Wisconsin

Northern States Power Wisconsin rates and average bill

Northern States Power Wisconsin reported 230,313 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 721 kWh a month on average at 15.55 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, Northern States Power Wisconsin ranks 11 from the lowest price.

Northern States Power Wisconsin compared with Wisconsin and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Northern States Power Wisconsin15.55721$112.20
Wisconsin (all utilities)18.08667$120.60
United States17.23874$150.68

Figures cover all of Northern States Power Wisconsin'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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Northern States Power Wisconsin has distribution equipment. That covers 30 counties in Wisconsin, Michigan. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Wisconsin (28 counties)

Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire, Iron, Jackson, La Crosse, Lincoln, Marathon, Monroe, Oneida, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, St Croix, Taylor, Trempealeau, Vernon, Vilas, Washburn

Michigan (2 counties)

Gogebic, Ontonagon

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Reliability

For 2025, Northern States Power Wisconsin reported an average of 110 minutes without power per customer and 0.83 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 133 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Northern States Power Wisconsin had about 17 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Wisconsin figure across its utilities was 87 minutes. One interruption lasting 133 minutes and 0.83 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 110 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Northern States Power Wisconsin reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 7,229 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 789 residential net-metered systems on the Northern States Power Wisconsin grid in 2025, with 10.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

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.

Northern States Power Wisconsin is an investor-owned utility based in Wisconsin, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Northern States Power Wisconsin operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Northern States Power Wisconsin compared with Wisconsin

Of the 65 utilities listed for Wisconsin, Northern States Power Wisconsin is the 4th largest by homes, at roughly 7.8% of the state total. Northern States Power Wisconsin reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Wisconsin, for comparisons. 789 of its residential customers use net metering, or 3.4 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.

Other Wisconsin utilities

Utilities in Wisconsin close in size to Northern States Power Wisconsin
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Northern States Power WisconsinInvestor-owned230,31315.55
Wisconsin Power and Light (Alliant Energy)Investor-owned440,74618.47
Wisconsin Public ServiceInvestor-owned415,64317.20
Madison Gas and ElectricInvestor-owned148,48221.11
East Central EnergyCooperative61,04017.60
Adams-Columbia Electric CooperativeCooperative36,15918.98

See every one on the electric companies in Wisconsin page.

Official site and where to get help

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Northern States Power Wisconsin questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Northern States Power Wisconsin?

Northern States Power Wisconsin residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 15.55 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 721 kWh a month and an average bill of $112.20 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Wisconsin average was 18.08 cents.

How many customers does Northern States Power Wisconsin have?

EIA reports about 230,313 residential customers for Northern States Power Wisconsin in 2025.

Who regulates Northern States Power Wisconsin?

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. See the regulator for Wisconsin on the Wisconsin state page.

How reliable is Northern States Power Wisconsin?

For 2025, Northern States Power Wisconsin reported an average of 110 minutes of outage per customer and 0.83 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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