West River Electric Association Rates and Average Bill Guide

West River Electric Association reported 18,975 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 896 kWh a month on average at 15.16 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, West River Electric Association ranks 11 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 West River Electric Association has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in South Dakota. 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, West River Electric Association reported an average of 24 minutes without power per customer and 0.30 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 80 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

West River Electric Association had about 103 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The South Dakota figure across its utilities was 64 minutes. One interruption lasting 80 minutes and 0.30 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 24 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. West River Electric Association reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 44 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 206 residential net-metered systems on the West River Electric Association grid in 2025, with 1.4 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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West River Electric Association is an electric cooperative based in South Dakota.

West River Electric Association operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

South Dakota has 16 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. West River Electric Association is 5th by size and serves about 4.3% of the state's homes. Among 8 other cooperatives in South Dakota, the median price is 13.42 cents per kWh, so West River Electric Association at 15.16 cents is 1.74 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical West River Electric Association bill runs about $56 above the state average, with monthly use 88 kWh lower. West River Electric Association lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 206 of its residential customers use net metering, or 10.9 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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