Interstate Power and Light Co electricity rates

It serves 417,153 residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in Iowa. At 17.90¢ per kilowatt-hour it is among the more expensive utilities in Iowa, 26.6% above the statewide average of 14.14¢.

Consumption here is below the national norm at 714 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which softens the effect of the rate on the final bill.

A shareholder-owned company whose rates are set by the state regulator, including an approved return on the capital it has invested. 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 Interstate Power and Light Co customer went 116 minutes without electricity across 1.08 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.

Interstate Power and Light Co offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 17,217 households were enrolled, about 4.1% 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.

10,120 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 82.57 megawatts. That works out to 24.3 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.