Brookings Municipal Utilities

About Brookings Municipal Utilities

Brookings Municipal Utilities provides electricity for Brookings, South Dakota and is a municipally owned entity. With 11,988 consumers, the supplier provides electricity to 10,258 residential customers, 1,564 commercial properties and 166 industrial accounts. On average, Brookings Municipal Utilities' residential electricity price is 11.03 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 9.99% lower than the average South Dakota price of 12.25 cents. They had total sales and disposition of 332,217 megawatt hours in 2022, of which 319,726 megawatt hours were via retail sales. The electricity sourced by the company is made up primarily of megawatt hours they procured by way of the wholesale market. Of the electricity sourced whole purchased made up 100.00%. In 2022 the supplier had total electricity related revenue of $31,553,000, with 97.30% from retail sales.

The nationwide average monthly residential power bill is $132.69, while the Brookings Municipal Utilities average is 28.52% below at $94.86 per month. This is the 674th lowest average monthly bill amount for a provider in the nation. The provider currently does not produce any of the electricity that they sell. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale prices from other companies and then resell it at a higher rate to end customers.