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The average electric bill in Minnesota

Minnesota households paid $117.67 a month for electricity in 2025, at 15.83¢ per kilowatt-hour for 743 kWh a month. That is 20% below the national median, and ranks #42 of 51 states, most expensive first.

Monthly bill
$117.67
US median $147.18
Price
15.83¢
per kWh · US 15.39¢
Usage
743
kWh per month
Households
2,605,558
residential accounts

What each Minnesota utility charges, most expensive first

City of Lake Crystal - (MN) charges 20.01¢ per kWh and Glencoe Light & Power Comm charges 9.25¢ — 2.2× apart inside one state. You do not usually get to choose between them; your address does.

#UtilityPriceTypical billvs US median
1City of Lake Crystal - (MN)Municipal · 1,080 homes20.01¢per kWh$133.97669 kWh/mo1.45× dearer
2Rochester Public UtilitiesMunicipal · 55,728 homes18.58¢per kWh$107.89581 kWh/mo1.34× dearer
3Lake Country PowerCooperative · 47,386 homes18.34¢per kWh$160.13873 kWh/mo1.33× dearer
4East Central EnergyCooperative · 55,839 homes17.63¢per kWh$151.16857 kWh/mo1.27× dearer
5Mille Lacs Energy CooperativeCooperative · 14,603 homes17.50¢per kWh$129.96743 kWh/mo1.26× dearer
6People's Cooperative ServicesCooperative · 21,741 homes17.19¢per kWh$157.98919 kWh/mo1.24× dearer
7Northern States Power Co - MinnesotaInvestor Owned · 1,243,236 homes17.07¢per kWh$104.99615 kWh/mo1.23× dearer
8MiEnergy CooperativeCooperative · 15,320 homes16.90¢per kWh$165.74981 kWh/mo1.22× dearer
9City of Chaska - (MN)Municipal · 11,194 homes16.75¢per kWh$112.27670 kWh/mo1.21× dearer
10Steele-Waseca Cooperative ElectricCooperative · 10,788 homes16.46¢per kWh$161.25980 kWh/mo1.19× dearer
11City of Elk RiverMunicipal · 11,935 homes16.27¢per kWh$123.77761 kWh/mo1.18× dearer
12City of AnokaMunicipal · 11,624 homes16.20¢per kWh$91.96568 kWh/mo1.17× dearer
13BENCO Electric CooperativeCooperative · 18,500 homes16.14¢per kWh$157.87978 kWh/mo1.17× dearer
14Shakopee Public Utilities CommMunicipal · 18,970 homes15.91¢per kWh$105.55664 kWh/mo1.15× dearer
15ALLETE, Inc.Investor Owned · 126,520 homes15.86¢per kWh$106.80673 kWh/mo1.15× dearer
16Dakota Electric AssociationCooperative · 109,148 homes15.63¢per kWh$116.41745 kWh/mo1.13× dearer
17South Central Electric AssnCooperative · 4,657 homes15.51¢per kWh$216.541,396 kWh/mo1.12× dearer
18Beltrami Electric Coop, IncCooperative · 20,929 homes15.47¢per kWh$179.051,157 kWh/mo1.12× dearer
19City of Austin - (MN)Municipal · 10,820 homes15.35¢per kWh$95.86625 kWh/mo1.11× dearer
20Freeborn Mower Electric CooperativeCooperative · 17,664 homes15.28¢per kWh$136.36893 kWh/mo1.10× dearer
21City of Owatonna - (MN)Municipal · 11,597 homes15.03¢per kWh$97.67650 kWh/mo1.09× dearer
22Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec AssnCooperative · 54,582 homes15.00¢per kWh$140.42936 kWh/mo1.08× dearer
23Runestone Electric AssnCooperative · 14,349 homes14.75¢per kWh$175.871,192 kWh/mo1.07× dearer
24Wild Rice Electric Coop, IncCooperative · 14,001 homes14.70¢per kWh$181.791,237 kWh/mo1.06× dearer
25Minnesota Valley Electric CoopCooperative · 43,682 homes14.39¢per kWh$145.671,012 kWh/mo1.04× dearer
26Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light CompCooperative · 45,155 homes14.30¢per kWh$123.31862 kWh/mo1.03× dearer
27Connexus EnergyCooperative · 136,082 homes14.11¢per kWh$113.11802 kWh/mo1.02× dearer
28Stearns Cooperative Elec AssnCooperative · 26,275 homes14.07¢per kWh$177.361,261 kWh/mo1.02× dearer
29Meeker Coop Light & Power AssnCooperative · 8,593 homes14.03¢per kWh$197.711,409 kWh/mo1.01× dearer
30Willmar Municipal Utilities (MN)Municipal · 8,521 homes13.77¢per kWh$93.07676 kWh/mo1.01× cheaper
31Agralite Electric CoopCooperative · 4,348 homes13.74¢per kWh$191.281,392 kWh/mo1.01× cheaper
32Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN)Cooperative · 27,496 homes13.60¢per kWh$143.051,052 kWh/mo1.02× cheaper
33Sioux Valley SW Elec CoopCooperative · 3,371 homes13.54¢per kWh$282.822,089 kWh/mo1.02× cheaper
34Minnesota Valley Coop L&P AssnCooperative · 4,946 homes13.23¢per kWh$284.942,154 kWh/mo1.05× cheaper
35Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical AssnCooperative · 11,412 homes13.11¢per kWh$126.98969 kWh/mo1.06× cheaper
36Federated Rural Electric AssnCooperative · 5,733 homes12.81¢per kWh$159.911,248 kWh/mo1.08× cheaper
37City of Worthington - (MN)Municipal · 4,667 homes12.16¢per kWh$79.65655 kWh/mo1.14× cheaper
38Brainerd Public UtilitiesMunicipal · 7,014 homes12.10¢per kWh$80.11662 kWh/mo1.14× cheaper
39City of Alexandria - (MN)Municipal · 8,871 homes11.99¢per kWh$91.04759 kWh/mo1.15× cheaper
40City of Moorhead - (MN)Municipal · 18,556 homes11.52¢per kWh$97.26844 kWh/mo1.20× cheaper
41Otter Tail Power CoInvestor Owned · 50,219 homes11.27¢per kWh$101.91904 kWh/mo1.23× cheaper
42Hutchinson Utilities CommMunicipal · 6,731 homes11.02¢per kWh$77.85706 kWh/mo1.26× cheaper
43City of Marshall - (MN)Municipal · 5,864 homes9.85¢per kWh$88.09894 kWh/mo1.41× cheaper
44Glencoe Light & Power CommMunicipal · 2,589 homes9.25¢per kWh$65.42707 kWh/mo1.50× cheaper

Price is residential revenue divided by residential kilowatt-hours sold, for bundled service only. Typical bill is that utility’s residential revenue spread over its residential accounts and twelve months, not a quoted tariff. The median priced utility charges 13.84¢ per kWh.

Price is only half of it

The median Minnesota utility also leaves customers without power for 1.7 hours a year. A cheap utility that is out for two days a year is not obviously a bargain. See Minnesota utilities ranked by outage time, or the utilities that charge the most and deliver the least.

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