Poudre Valley REA, Inc electricity rates

It serves 49,587 residential customers in Colorado. At 12.21¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Colorado, 24.4% under the statewide average of 16.16¢.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 885 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.

In 2024 the average Poudre Valley REA, Inc customer went 325 minutes without electricity across 1.33 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is worse than typical. Overhead lines through wooded or storm-exposed terrain are the usual explanation, and the fix is vegetation management and circuit automation, both of which are recovered through rates.

2,263 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 18.31 megawatts. That works out to 45.6 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption here is exceptionally high. That usually means some combination of a high retail rate worth displacing, strong sunshine and favourable export rules, and it tends to bring its own regulatory argument about who covers the fixed cost of the network. What exports are actually worth.