High West Energy, Inc electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 5,579 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 14.37¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the Wyoming average of 14.80¢ closely, which is what you would expect from a utility large enough to shape that average itself.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 1,016 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever the rate does.

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.

High West Energy, Inc offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 134 households were enrolled, about 2.4% 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.

237 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.47 megawatts. That works out to 42.5 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.