United Power, Inc electricity rates

It serves 101,502 residential customers in Colorado. At 15.75¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the Colorado average of 16.16¢ closely, which is what you would expect from a utility large enough to shape that average itself.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 811 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 United Power, Inc customer went 77 minutes without electricity across 1.2 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is markedly better than typical. Short outage durations usually mean an underground or heavily automated network, and they are expensive to achieve, which is part of why reliable systems often carry higher delivery charges.

United Power, Inc offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 3,005 households were enrolled, about 3% 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.

12,610 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 74.15 megawatts. That works out to 124.2 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.