Yampa Valley Electric Association Rates and Average Bill

Yampa Valley Electric Association reported 24,177 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 858 kWh a month on average at 16.99 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, Yampa Valley Electric Association ranks 19 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Yampa Valley Electric Association'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 Yampa Valley Electric Association has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Colorado, Wyoming. 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, Yampa Valley Electric Association reported an average of 189 minutes without power per customer and 1.40 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 135 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Yampa Valley Electric Association had about 62 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Colorado figure across its utilities was 119 minutes. One interruption lasting 135 minutes and 1.40 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 189 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. Yampa Valley Electric Association 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 339 residential net-metered systems on the Yampa Valley Electric Association grid in 2025, with 3.0 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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Yampa Valley Electric Association is an electric cooperative based in Colorado, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Of the 28 utilities listed for Colorado, Yampa Valley Electric Association is the 14th largest by homes, at roughly 0.91% of the state total. Its price of 16.99 cents per kWh is 1.34 cents above the median of 19 other cooperatives in Colorado (15.66 cents). Yampa Valley Electric Association reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Colorado, for comparisons. 339 of its residential customers use net metering, or 14.0 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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