Strawberry Electric Serv Dist electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 3,593 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 15.16¢ per kilowatt-hour it is among the more expensive utilities in Utah, 17% above the statewide average of 12.96¢.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 1,159 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever the rate does.

A public body created by the state or county, governed by an elected or appointed board rather than by shareholders. 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 Strawberry Electric Serv Dist customer went 167 minutes without electricity . 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.

258 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 2.09 megawatts. That works out to 71.8 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption here is exceptionally high. That usually means some combination of a high retail rate worth displacing, strong sunshine and favourable export rules, and it tends to bring its own regulatory argument about who covers the fixed cost of the network. What exports are actually worth.