Adams-Columbia Electric Coop electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 35,910 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. Its 17.63¢ per kilowatt-hour sits 10.7% below the Wisconsin average of 19.74¢.

Its customers use very little electricity by national standards, 615 kilowatt-hours a month against 871 nationally. Dense housing, a mild climate or heating that runs on gas rather than electricity all push consumption down, and any of them can leave a household with a modest bill despite a high rate.

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 Adams-Columbia Electric Coop customer went 140 minutes without electricity across 1.15 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.

Adams-Columbia Electric Coop offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 555 households were enrolled, about 1.5% 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.

314 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 2.21 megawatts. That works out to 8.7 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.