Dahlberg Light & Power Co electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 10,939 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 12.62¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Wisconsin, 36.1% under the statewide average of 19.74¢.

Its customers use very little electricity by national standards, 551 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.

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.

63 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.46 megawatts. That works out to 5.8 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is below the national median. A low retail rate reduces what solar displaces, and export compensation set at avoided cost rather than the retail rate reduces it further. What exports are actually worth.