Reedsburg Utility Comm electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 4,833 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 12.08¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Wisconsin, 38.8% under the statewide average of 19.74¢.

Consumption here is below the national norm at 670 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which softens the effect of the rate on the final bill.

Owned by the city it serves and governed by a local board rather than the state commission. No shareholder return is built into the rate. 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.

Reedsburg Utility Comm offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 1 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.

17 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.12 megawatts. That works out to 3.5 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.