Rochester Public Utilities Rates, Bills and Service Area

Rochester Public Utilities reported 55,728 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 581 kWh a month on average at 18.58 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, Rochester Public Utilities ranks 32 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 Rochester Public Utilities has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county 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, Rochester Public Utilities reported an average of 25 minutes without power per customer and 0.43 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 57 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Rochester Public Utilities had about 103 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Minnesota figure across its utilities was 93 minutes. One interruption lasting 57 minutes and 0.43 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 25 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. Rochester Public Utilities reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 258 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 755 residential net-metered systems on the Rochester Public Utilities grid in 2025, with 6.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Rochester Public Utilities is a municipal utility based in Minnesota.

Rochester Public Utilities 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, Rochester Public Utilities ranks 7th of the 43 utilities that report homes in Minnesota, with about 2.1% of the state's homes. Rochester Public Utilities lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 755 of its residential customers use net metering, or 13.5 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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