Brookings Municipal Utilities

About Brookings Municipal Utilities

Brookings Municipal Utilities provides electricity for Brookings, South Dakota and is a municipally owned entity. Brookings Municipal Utilities has an average residential electricity rate of 11.32 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 12.38% less than the average South Dakota rate of 12.92 cents, a welcome situation for their customers. A total of 326,271 megawatt hours were sold through retail sales in 2023 by the provider. Of the megawatt hours they sourced, 333,927 megawatt hours were purchased by way of wholesale channels. In 2023, the supplier made a total of $31,586,000 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had revenue of $30,692,000 from retail sales to end users.

The nationwide average monthly residential power bill is $139.28, while the Brookings Municipal Utilities average is 36.47% below at $88.48 per month. This is the 387th lowest average monthly bill amount for a provider in the nation. The power grid operated by the company has an average of 0.2 outages per consumer a year, with outages lasting on average 9.02 minutes. The national average for other companies is 1.44 outages per consumer and approximately 123.49 minutes an outage. The company does not have ownership in any electricity facilities and all of the megawatt hours that they sell to their customers must be purchased wholesale from other suppliers.