Missouri · Municipal

City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) Electricity Rates

Average residential price, customers served and derived annual usage from EIA Form 861, 2024 release.

11.47¢
Avg residential price / kWh
105.0K
Residential customers
-11.1%
vs Missouri average
$1,152
Implied avg annual bill

City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) charged an average of 11.47¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - below the Missouri average and far below the US average.

City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) is municipal - a utility owned and operated by the local government it serves. Its reported average residential price is below the Missouri customer-weighted average (-11.1%). Its customers used near the national residential norm at about 10,048 kWh a year each.

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 46 utilities reporting residential rates in Missouri, City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) comes 8th of 46. The state's range runs from City of Sikeston - (MO) at 9.88¢ to Callaway Electric Cooperative at 16.29¢, so where a household sits inside Missouri depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 11 other municipal utilities reporting in Missouri, which averaged 12.41¢, City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) is close to its own ownership class within the state (-7.6%).

All figures come from the 2024 release, so no comparison mixes vintages. The state figure is customer-weighted across 46 reporting utilities.

Where City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) sits among Missouri utilities

2024 average residential price across the 46 utilities reporting a rate in Missouri

11.47¢/kWh Top 18% most affordable More affordable than 84% of 45 other utilities

City Utilities of Springfield - (MO)

average residential price, equal-width bands

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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) 11.47¢ -
Missouri (customer-weighted, 46 utilities) 12.90¢ -11.1%
United States average 16.48¢ -30.4%
Municipal utilities nationally (455) 13.03¢ -12.0%

Rate against consumption: Missouri utilities

Each dot is one of the 46 Missouri utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) is highlighted. In Missouri the cheapest rate belongs to City of Sikeston - (MO) (9.88¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to Sunnova ($1,100) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 46 entities by Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) (X) and Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Costly rate, heavy useCheaper rate, heavy useCostly rate, light useCheaper rate, light use -50050100150 -50050100150 Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use)
Each dot is one of the 46 Missouri utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) is highlighted. In Missouri the cheapest rate belongs to City of Sikeston - (MO) (9.88¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to Sunnova ($1,100) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists.

Scale and consumption

City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) reported 105.0K residential customers, ranking 5th of 46 utilities in Missouri by customers served and covering 3.8% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 10,048 kWh per customer per year - near the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $1,152.

Within Missouri the median reporting utility sells about 13,032 kWh per customer, so City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) customers use -22.9% against their own state's middle. Consumption this light usually tracks denser housing, gas heating or a milder service territory, which softens the bill impact of a high per-kWh price.

Every utility reporting in Missouri

All 46 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Missouri, largest first, with City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

Residential utilities in Missouri, 2024, ranked by customers served
Utility Ownership Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Union Electric Co - (MO) Investor Owned 1.1M 12.56¢
Evergy Missouri West Investor Owned 305.6K 12.55¢
Evergy Metro Investor Owned 273.9K 13.72¢
Empire District Electric Co Investor Owned 142.5K 14.99¢
City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) (this page) Municipal 105.0K 11.47¢
Cuivre River Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 73.0K 11.07¢
City of Independence - (MO) Municipal 53.8K 15.74¢
City of Columbia - (MO) Municipal 45.7K 13.94¢
Southwest Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 41.4K 11.99¢
White River Valley El Coop Inc Cooperative 39.2K 14.30¢
Laclede Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 35.0K 11.73¢
Boone Electric Coop Cooperative 33.8K 13.40¢
Ozark Border Electric Coop Cooperative 33.2K 11.66¢
Ozark Electric Coop Inc - (MO) Cooperative 31.5K 14.07¢
Co-Mo Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 31.1K 15.18¢
Intercounty Electric Coop Assn - (MO) Cooperative 30.0K 13.01¢
Citizens Electric Corporation - (MO) Cooperative 24.8K 15.33¢
Platte-Clay Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 23.6K 12.46¢
Howell-Oregon Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 23.1K 12.54¢
Three Rivers Electric Coop Cooperative 22.6K 12.47¢
Black River Electric Coop - (MO) Cooperative 21.6K 12.81¢
Crawford Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 19.8K 12.78¢
New-Mac Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 19.4K 12.63¢
Webster Electric Coop Cooperative 18.8K 10.19¢
Osage Valley Elec Coop Assn Cooperative 16.9K 14.00¢
West Central Electric Coop Inc - (MO) Cooperative 15.3K 12.28¢
Callaway Electric Cooperative Cooperative 12.6K 16.29¢
Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) Cooperative 12.5K 13.35¢
Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) Cooperative 12.1K 12.70¢
Central Missouri Elec Coop Inc Cooperative 11.2K 12.51¢
SEMO Electric Cooperative Cooperative 10.8K 12.79¢
Macon Electric Coop Cooperative 10.0K 14.82¢
Gascosage Electric Coop Cooperative 9.3K 12.30¢
City of Kirkwood - (MO) Municipal 9.1K 14.35¢
City of Rolla - (MO) Municipal 8.1K 10.62¢
City of Poplar Bluff - (MO) Municipal 7.7K 11.18¢
Consolidated Electric Coop Cooperative 7.6K 12.96¢
City of Hannibal - (MO) Municipal 7.6K 12.91¢
City of Farmington - (MO) Municipal 7.3K 10.22¢
City of Carthage - (MO) Municipal 7.1K 14.06¢
City of Sikeston - (MO) Municipal 7.1K 9.88¢
City of Lebanon - (MO) Municipal 6.1K 10.00¢
Missouri Rural Electric Coop Cooperative 5.0K 13.62¢
City of Monett - (MO) Municipal 4.1K 13.65¢
Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) Cooperative 48 14.58¢
Sunnova Behind the Meter 1 13.75¢

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in Missouri.

Common questions about City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) rates

How much does City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) charge per kWh?
City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) reported an average residential price of 11.47¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.
Is City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) expensive compared with the rest of Missouri?
Its average residential price is below the Missouri customer-weighted average of 12.90¢ per kWh, a difference of -11.1%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 46 utilities reporting residential service in Missouri.
What is the average electricity bill for City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) customers?
Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 10,048 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,152 a year, or about $96 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
Who owns City Utilities of Springfield - (MO)?
EIA classifies City Utilities of Springfield - (MO) as Municipal, a utility owned and operated by the local government it serves. Nationally, Municipal utilities averaged 13.03¢ per kWh in the 2024 release.

What this page does and does not tell you

  • An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
  • Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology, why energy prices vary and understanding rate structures.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.

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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Average price, customers and sales are reported by EIA Form 861 (2024). Per-customer annual usage, the implied annual bill, the customer-weighted state average and every percentage difference are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.