Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op Rates and Average Bill

Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op reported 21,471 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 893 kWh a month on average at 14.22 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 11 Montana utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op ranks 9 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 Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in Montana. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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• Time-of-use pricing. Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op 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 453 residential net-metered systems on the Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op grid in 2025, with 3.9 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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Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op is an electric cooperative based in Montana.

Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op ranks 3rd of the 7 utilities that report homes in Montana, with about 3.8% of the state's homes. At $126.96 a month, an average Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op home pays about $194 a year more than the Montana average of $110.80, and uses 40 kWh a month more. Yellowstone Valley Electric Co-op lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 453 of its residential customers use net metering, or 21.1 per 1,000 homes, against 23.7 for Montana as a whole.

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

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