Y-W Electric Assn Inc electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 4,876 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 15.64¢ 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 here is below the national norm at 779 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which softens the effect of the rate on the final 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 Y-W Electric Assn Inc customer went 270 minutes without electricity . 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.

36 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.28 megawatts. That works out to 7.4 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is below the national median. A low retail rate reduces what solar displaces, and export compensation set at avoided cost rather than the retail rate reduces it further. What exports are actually worth.