Xcel Energy Colorado Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Xcel Energy Colorado reported 1,379,910 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 584 kWh a month on average at 15.90 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, Xcel Energy Colorado ranks 14 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 Xcel Energy Colorado has distribution equipment. That covers 56 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, Xcel Energy Colorado reported an average of 149 minutes without power per customer and 1.36 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 110 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Xcel Energy Colorado had about 22 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 110 minutes and 1.36 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 149 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. Xcel Energy Colorado reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 1,375,000 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 121,127 residential net-metered systems on the Xcel Energy Colorado grid in 2025, with 720.3 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 Colorado, that review is done by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.

Xcel Energy Colorado is an investor-owned utility based in Colorado.

Of the 28 utilities listed for Colorado, Xcel Energy Colorado is the 1st largest by homes, at roughly 53.0% of the state total. Colorado has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Xcel Energy Colorado with its type, so the state average of 15.69 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $92.91 a month, an average Xcel Energy Colorado home pays about $125 a year less than the Colorado average of $103.30, and uses 74 kWh a month less. Xcel Energy Colorado lists distribution equipment in 56 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 121,127 of its residential customers use net metering, or 87.8 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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