Upper Peninsula Power Rates, Bills and Service Area in 2025

Upper Peninsula Power reported 47,805 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 447 kWh a month on average at 27.98 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 20 Michigan utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Upper Peninsula Power ranks 20 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 Upper Peninsula Power has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in Michigan. 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, Upper Peninsula Power reported an average of 190 minutes without power per customer and 1.29 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 147 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Upper Peninsula Power had about 63 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Michigan figure across its utilities was 161 minutes. One interruption lasting 147 minutes and 1.29 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 190 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. Upper Peninsula Power 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 285 residential net-metered systems on the Upper Peninsula Power grid in 2025, with 1.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Michigan, that review is done by the Michigan Public Service Commission.

Upper Peninsula Power is an investor-owned utility based in Michigan.

Upper Peninsula Power 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, Upper Peninsula Power ranks 5th of the 28 utilities that report homes in Michigan, with about 1.1% of the state's homes. Upper Peninsula Power lists distribution equipment in 11 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 285 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.0 per 1,000 homes, against 6.3 for Michigan as a whole.

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

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