Polk-Burnett Electric Coop electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 20,379 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 15.90¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Wisconsin, 19.5% under the statewide average of 19.74¢.

Consumption here is below the national norm at 752 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which softens the effect of the rate on the final bill.

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 Polk-Burnett Electric Coop customer went 95 minutes without electricity across 0.98 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.

191 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 1.52 megawatts. That works out to 9.4 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.