Montana-Dakota Utilities Co electricity rates

It serves 79,354 residential customers in North Dakota. At 11.72¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in North Dakota, 13.9% under the statewide average of 13.61¢.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 806 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the 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 Montana-Dakota Utilities Co customer went 83 minutes without electricity across 0.99 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.

Montana-Dakota Utilities Co offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 4 households were enrolled, about 0.1% 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.