CORE Electric Cooperative Electricity Rates

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 41 utilities reporting residential rates in Colorado, CORE Electric Cooperative comes 19th of 41. The state's range runs from City of Fort Morgan at 6.97¢ to SunPower Capital, LLC at 24.78¢, so where a household sits inside Colorado depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 24 other cooperative utilities reporting in Colorado, which averaged 15.45¢, CORE Electric Cooperative is close to its own ownership class within the state (-2.6%).

All figures come from the 2024 release, so no comparison mixes vintages. The state figure is customer-weighted across 41 reporting utilities.

Scale and consumption

CORE Electric Cooperative reported 165.1K residential customers, ranking 3rd of 41 utilities in Colorado by customers served and covering 6.5% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 10,363 kWh per customer per year - near the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $1,559.

Within Colorado the median reporting utility sells about 8,597 kWh per customer, so CORE Electric Cooperative customers use +20.5% against their own state's middle. Consumption this heavy usually tracks electric heating, sustained air-conditioning load or a largely detached-housing territory, which makes the price per kWh bite harder here than the headline rate suggests.

Every utility reporting in Colorado

All 41 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Colorado, largest first, with CORE Electric Cooperative marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

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

Common questions about CORE Electric Cooperative rates

How much does CORE Electric Cooperative charge per kWh?

CORE Electric Cooperative reported an average residential price of 15.04¢ 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 CORE Electric Cooperative expensive compared with the rest of Colorado?

Its average residential price is close to the Colorado customer-weighted average of 14.94¢ per kWh, a difference of +0.7%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 41 utilities reporting residential service in Colorado.

What is the average electricity bill for CORE Electric Cooperative customers?

Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 10,363 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,559 a year, or about $130 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.

Who owns CORE Electric Cooperative?

EIA classifies CORE Electric Cooperative 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.