Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative reported 20,584 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 797 kWh a month on average at 15.96 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, Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative ranks 14 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 Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Wisconsin. 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, Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative reported an average of 44 minutes without power per customer and 1.02 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 43 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative had about 84 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Wisconsin figure across its utilities was 87 minutes. One interruption lasting 43 minutes and 1.02 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 44 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. Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 213 residential net-metered systems on the Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 1.7 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin has 65 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative is 7th by size and serves about 0.72% of the state's homes. At $127.26 a month, an average Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative home pays about $80 a year more than the Wisconsin average of $120.60, and uses 130 kWh a month more. Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 213 of its residential customers use net metering, or 10.3 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.

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