NineStar Connect electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 17,770 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 15.68¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Indiana, 13.6% under the statewide average of 18.15¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,237 kilowatt-hours a month against a national average of 871. Long cooling seasons, large detached homes and electric resistance heating are the usual causes, and together they matter more to the bill than the rate does.

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 NineStar Connect customer went 129 minutes without electricity across 1.21 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is better than the typical American utility, though the figure includes major storm days and can move sharply from one year to the next.

NineStar Connect offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 17,770 households were enrolled, about 100% 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.