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Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Electricity Rates

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

16.98¢
Avg residential price / kWh
1.2M
Residential customers
+6.9%
vs Minnesota average
$1,198
Implied avg annual bill

Among 194 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, Northern States Power Co - Minnesota ranks #55 by average cents per kWh and #22 by residential customers. Northern States Power Co - Minnesota charged an average of 16.98¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - close to the Minnesota average and close to the Form 861 US customer-weighted average.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count. Northern States Power Co - Minnesota is investor owned - a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Its reported average residential price is close to the Minnesota customer-weighted average (+6.9%). Its customers used below the national residential norm at about 7,054 kWh a year each.

  • San Diego Gas & Electric Co 43.63¢ · customers rank #90
  • Florida Power & Light Co 5,236,277 customers · price rank #122

Highest average rate is not the most customers

Residential customers for the average-rate #1 and customers #1 utilities among 194 with 100,000 or more residential customers

residential customers
  • FL size
    5,236,277
  • CA rate
    307,982

What this shows San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey, latest release. Average cents per kWh and customer counts from the same rows; no tariff or bill is implied. As of 2024

EIA Form 861 utility filing desk

Release MN-2024 · Northern States Power Co - Minnesota ABOVE STATE

Northern States Power Co - Minnesota · Form 861 2024 · ABOVE STATE

  • RATE 16.98¢/kWh
  • RANK #42/46
  • VS-ST +6.9%
  • VS-US -0.8%
  • CUST 1.2M
  • BILL $1,198
  • OWN IOU
  • PHOTO PA 0.01¢
  • BOOK 22/194

Nearest Form 861 price peer: PPL Electric Utilities Corp (PA) (+0.01¢ gap)

EIA Form 861 residential filing stamps for this utility record. Read with this utility → · Minnesota rates

Northern States Power Co - Minnesota in the Form 861 price neighbourhood

Average residential ¢/kWh among this utility and nearest indexable peers

¢/kWh
  • WI
    17
  • this util
    17
  • PA
    17
  • MI
    17
  • VA
    17

What this shows Northern States Power Co - Minnesota reports 16.98¢/kWh, corpus customer-rank 22 of 194.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey As of 2024
F38/100

RateWatt cost context

How Northern States Power Co - Minnesota compares on reported cost context

A weighted comparison, not a tariff quote, reliability grade, service-quality score, or recommendation. Lower price and lower implied annual bill score better against reporting utilities in Minnesota; the state generation context is shown separately.

Price against state peers
9/100

16.98¢/kWh · median 14.35¢/kWh

Implied annual bill against state peers
69/100

$1,198/yr · median $1,470/yr

State renewable generation context
66/100

33.4% · median 22.8%

Weights: 50% price, 30% implied annual bill, 20% state renewable-generation context. Unreported inputs are excluded and the remaining weights are redistributed. Price and bill use EIA Form 861 (2024); generation context uses EIA state generation data (2025) and is not attributed to this provider.

Rate comparison

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 46 utilities reporting residential rates in Minnesota, Northern States Power Co - Minnesota comes 42nd 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 3 other investor owned utilities reporting in Minnesota, whose customer-weighted average is 14.43¢, Northern States Power Co - Minnesota is above its own ownership class within the state (+17.7%).

State price distribution

Where Northern States Power Co - Minnesota sits among Minnesota utilities

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

16.98¢/kWh 9th affordability percentile More affordable than 9% of 45 other utilities

Northern States Power Co - Minnesota

average residential price, equal-width bands

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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

Northern States Power Co - Minnesota average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota 16.98¢ -
Minnesota (customer-weighted, 46 utilities) 15.89¢ +6.9%
US Form 861 customer-weighted average (1.5K utilities) 17.11¢ -0.8%
Investor Owned customer-weighted US avg (183 utilities) 18.37¢ -7.5%

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. Northern States Power Co - Minnesota 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 050100150 050100150 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. Northern States Power Co - Minnesota 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.

Territory and usage

Scale and consumption

Northern States Power Co - Minnesota reported 1.2M residential customers, ranking 1st of 46 utilities in Minnesota by customers served and covering 52.8% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 7,054 kWh per customer per year - -29.1% against the Minnesota median of 9,946 kWh , implying a typical annual bill near $1,198.

State peers

Every utility reporting in Minnesota

All 46 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Minnesota, largest first, with Northern States Power Co - Minnesota 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 (this page) Investor Owned 1.2M 16.98¢
Connexus Energy 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.

Ownership class peers

Investor Owned utilities with similar residential prices

Beyond Minnesota, these indexable investor owned utilities report the closest residential averages to Northern States Power Co - Minnesota in the same Form 861 release. Peer sets differ by ownership class and price, not a shared national list.

Same-ownership utilities outside Minnesota nearest in residential price
Utility State Customers Avg ¢/kWh
PPL Electric Utilities Corp Pennsylvania 797.8K 16.99¢
Indiana Michigan Power Co Michigan 112.6K 17.00¢
Appalachian Power Co Virginia 465.3K 17.02¢
Wisconsin Power & Light Co Wisconsin 437.2K 16.89¢
Alabama Power Co Alabama 1.3M 16.77¢

FAQ

Common questions about Northern States Power Co - Minnesota rates

How much does Northern States Power Co - Minnesota charge per kWh?
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota reported an average residential price of 16.98¢ 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 Northern States Power Co - Minnesota expensive compared with the rest of Minnesota?
Its average residential price is close to the Minnesota customer-weighted average of 15.89¢ per kWh, a difference of +6.9%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 46 utilities reporting residential service in Minnesota.
What is the average electricity bill for Northern States Power Co - Minnesota customers?
Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 7,054 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,198 a year, or about $100 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
Who owns Northern States Power Co - Minnesota?
EIA classifies Northern States Power Co - Minnesota as Investor Owned, a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Nationally, the customer-weighted average across Investor Owned utilities was 18.37¢ per kWh in the 2024 Form 861 release.

Limitations

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 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, the Form 861 US customer-weighted average, the ownership-class customer-weighted average, and every percentage difference are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns, never the separate EIA retail-sales statewide series. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.