Minnesota · Cooperative

Connexus Energy Electricity Rates

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

13.66¢
Avg residential price / kWh
134.1K
Residential customers
-14.0%
vs Minnesota average
$1,266
Implied avg annual bill

Connexus Energy charged an average of 13.66¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - below the Minnesota average and below the US average.

Connexus Energy is cooperative - a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Its reported average residential price is below the Minnesota customer-weighted average (-14.0%). Its customers used near the national residential norm at about 9,267 kWh a year each.

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 46 utilities reporting residential rates in Minnesota, Connexus Energy comes 17th of 46. The state's range runs from City of Marshall - (MN) at 9.70¢ to City of Lake Crystal - (MN) at 20.97¢, so where a household sits inside Minnesota depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 25 other cooperative utilities reporting in Minnesota, which averaged 14.51¢, Connexus Energy is close to its own ownership class within the state (-5.9%).

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

Where Connexus Energy sits among Minnesota utilities

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

13.66¢/kWh Top 37% most affordable More affordable than 64% of 45 other utilities

Connexus Energy

average residential price, equal-width bands

Each bar spans 2¢/kWh. Taller bars contain more utilities; the dashed marker locates this utility. Hover, focus or tap a bar for its exact count and share.

Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

Connexus Energy average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
Connexus Energy 13.66¢ -
Minnesota (customer-weighted, 46 utilities) 15.89¢ -14.0%
United States average 16.48¢ -17.1%
Cooperative utilities nationally (622) 14.14¢ -3.4%

Rate against consumption: Minnesota utilities

Each dot is one of the 46 Minnesota 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. Connexus Energy is highlighted. In Minnesota the cheapest rate belongs to City of Marshall - (MN) (9.70¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co ($767) - 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 Minnesota 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. Connexus Energy is highlighted. In Minnesota the cheapest rate belongs to City of Marshall - (MN) (9.70¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co ($767) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists.

Scale and consumption

Connexus Energy reported 134.1K residential customers, ranking 2nd of 46 utilities in Minnesota by customers served and covering 5.8% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 9,267 kWh per customer per year - near the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $1,266.

Within Minnesota the median reporting utility sells about 9,946 kWh per customer, so Connexus Energy customers use -6.8% against their own state's middle. Consumption close to the state middle means bills here track the price ranking fairly directly.

Every utility reporting in Minnesota

All 46 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Minnesota, largest first, with Connexus Energy marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

Residential utilities in Minnesota, 2024, ranked by customers served
Utility Ownership Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Investor Owned 1.2M 16.98¢
Connexus Energy (this page) Cooperative 134.1K 13.66¢
ALLETE, Inc. Investor Owned 125.9K 15.66¢
Dakota Electric Association Cooperative 108.1K 14.00¢
East Central Energy Cooperative 55.3K 16.89¢
Rochester Public Utilities Municipal 54.9K 17.91¢
Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn Cooperative 53.7K 14.59¢
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 50.1K 11.33¢
Lake Country Power Cooperative 47.2K 17.90¢
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp Cooperative 44.7K 13.33¢
Minnesota Valley Electric Coop Cooperative 43.4K 13.98¢
Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) Cooperative 27.2K 13.28¢
Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn Cooperative 26.1K 13.88¢
People's Cooperative Services Cooperative 21.7K 16.70¢
Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 20.7K 14.40¢
Shakopee Public Utilities Comm Municipal 18.5K 15.54¢
BENCO Electric Cooperative Cooperative 18.4K 15.03¢
City of Moorhead - (MN) Municipal 18.2K 11.38¢
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative Cooperative 17.8K 15.15¢
MiEnergy Cooperative Cooperative 15.2K 16.56¢
Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative Cooperative 14.5K 17.58¢
Runestone Electric Assn Cooperative 14.3K 14.36¢
Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 13.9K 14.35¢
City of Elk River Municipal 11.8K 15.83¢
City of Anoka Municipal 11.6K 15.88¢
City of Owatonna - (MN) Municipal 11.4K 15.27¢
Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn Cooperative 11.2K 13.44¢
City of Chaska - (MN) Municipal 11.0K 16.28¢
City of Austin - (MN) Municipal 10.8K 15.34¢
Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric Cooperative 10.7K 15.63¢
City of Alexandria - (MN) Municipal 8.8K 11.57¢
Willmar Municipal Utilities Municipal 8.7K 12.21¢
Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn Cooperative 8.6K 14.09¢
Brainerd Public Utilities Municipal 7.0K 12.15¢
Hutchinson Utilities Comm Municipal 6.7K 11.09¢
City of Marshall - (MN) Municipal 5.9K 9.70¢
Federated Rural Electric Assn Cooperative 5.7K 11.64¢
Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn Cooperative 4.9K 12.22¢
South Central Electric Assn Cooperative 4.7K 15.20¢
City of Worthington - (MN) Municipal 4.7K 12.08¢
Agralite Electric Coop Cooperative 4.3K 13.94¢
Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop Cooperative 3.4K 12.61¢
Glencoe Light & Power Comm Municipal 2.6K 11.17¢
City of Lake Crystal - (MN) Municipal 1.1K 20.97¢
Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co Investor Owned 88 14.45¢
Heartland Power Coop Cooperative 38 12.14¢

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

Common questions about Connexus Energy rates

How much does Connexus Energy charge per kWh?
Connexus Energy reported an average residential price of 13.66¢ 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 Connexus Energy expensive compared with the rest of Minnesota?
Its average residential price is below the Minnesota customer-weighted average of 15.89¢ per kWh, a difference of -14.0%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 46 utilities reporting residential service in Minnesota.
What is the average electricity bill for Connexus Energy customers?
Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 9,267 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,266 a year, or about $105 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
Who owns Connexus Energy?
EIA classifies Connexus Energy as Cooperative, a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Nationally, Cooperative utilities averaged 14.14¢ 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.