Wheatland Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Wheatland Electric Cooperative reported 20,138 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 869 kWh a month on average at 15.01 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 13 Kansas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Wheatland Electric Cooperative ranks 9 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Wheatland 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 Wheatland Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 15 counties in Kansas, 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, Wheatland Electric Cooperative reported an average of 121 minutes without power per customer and 1.28 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 95 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Wheatland Electric Cooperative sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Kansas figure across its utilities was 96 minutes. One interruption lasting 95 minutes and 1.28 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 121 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. Wheatland Electric Cooperative 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 58 residential net-metered systems on the Wheatland Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 0.5 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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Wheatland Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Kansas, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Wheatland 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 17 utilities listed for Kansas, Wheatland Electric Cooperative is the 5th largest by homes, at roughly 1.5% of the state total. Among 8 other cooperatives in Kansas, the median price is 14.67 cents per kWh, so Wheatland Electric Cooperative at 15.01 cents is 0.34 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical Wheatland Electric Cooperative bill runs about $48 above the state average, with monthly use 7 kWh lower. Wheatland Electric Cooperative reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Kansas, for comparisons. 58 of its residential customers use net metering, or 2.9 per 1,000 homes, against 7.8 for Kansas as a whole.

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

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