Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Co-op Rates and Bills

Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative reported 26,360 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,371 kWh a month on average at 13.87 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 12 South Dakota utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative ranks 9 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative'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.

EIA lists the counties where Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 15 counties in South Dakota, 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, Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative reported an average of 59 minutes without power per customer and 1.64 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 36 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative had about 69 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The South Dakota figure across its utilities was 64 minutes. One interruption lasting 36 minutes and 1.64 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 59 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. Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 683 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 66 residential net-metered systems on the Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 1.2 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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Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in South Dakota, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 16 utilities listed for South Dakota, Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative is the 3rd largest by homes, at roughly 5.2% of the state total. At $190.03 a month, an average Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative home pays about $707 a year more than the South Dakota average of $131.10, and uses 386 kWh a month more. Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, South Dakota, for comparisons. 66 of its residential customers use net metering, or 2.5 per 1,000 homes, against 1.4 for South Dakota as a whole.

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

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