Capital Electric Coop, Inc electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 19,530 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. Its 12.31¢ per kilowatt-hour sits 9.6% below the North Dakota average of 13.61¢.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 1,012 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever 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 Capital Electric Coop, Inc customer went 37 minutes without electricity across 0.44 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.

Capital Electric Coop, Inc offers time-of-use pricing and critical peak pricing to residential customers. 19,530 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.