United Power Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill in 2025

United Power reported 103,104 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 797 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 23 Colorado utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, United Power ranks 17 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 United Power has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Colorado. 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, United Power reported an average of 90 minutes without power per customer and 1.10 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 82 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

United Power had about 37 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 82 minutes and 1.10 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 90 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. United Power reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 3,636 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 13,299 residential net-metered systems on the United Power grid in 2025, with 78.7 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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United Power is an electric cooperative based in Colorado.

Colorado has 28 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. United Power is 4th by size and serves about 4.0% of the state's homes. Its price of 16.50 cents per kWh is 0.84 cents above the median of 19 other cooperatives in Colorado (15.66 cents). Over a year, the typical United Power bill runs about $338 above the state average, with monthly use 139 kWh higher. United Power lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 13,299 of its residential customers use net metering, or 129.0 per 1,000 homes, against 76.1 for Colorado as a whole.

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

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