Highline Electric Assn electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 5,047 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 14.12¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Colorado, 12.6% under the statewide average of 16.16¢.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 896 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

Owned by the customers it serves, with directors elected by members. Co-ops are frequently outside state rate regulation. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

Highline Electric Assn offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 7 households were enrolled, about 0.1% of its residential base.

These plans are opt-in almost everywhere. They reward households that can move laundry, dishwashing, water heating or electric vehicle charging out of the late-afternoon peak, and they cost more than the standard rate for households that cannot. How to tell which group you are in.

62 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.62 megawatts. That works out to 12.3 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.