Butler County REC

About Butler County REC

Butler County REC provides electricity to 4 cities in Iowa such as the cities of New Hampton, Sumner, Allison, Fredericksburg, and Roseville CDP. The organization is an electric cooperative. With 5,284 total customers, the supplier provides electricity to 1,216 industrial customers, 10 commercial locations and 4,058 residential customers. Customers of Butler County REC are charged an average residential electricity rate of 16.44 cents per kilowatt hour, which is, sadly for their customers, 1.76% higher than the average nationwide rate of 16.15 cents. The company participated in both the retail sales and the wholesale electricity market in 2023, with sales to end users adding up to 270,513 megawatt hours and wholesale sales equaling 33,892 megawatt hours. The electricity they sourced consisted of megawatt hours generated by the company in power facilities they own and megawatt hours that they procured via the wholesale market. In 2023, they made a total of $30,855,800 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had revenue of $2,984,400 coming from sales to the wholesale electricity market.

The nationwide average monthly residential electric bill is $142.37, while the Butler County REC average is 51.83% higher at $216.15 per month. Butler County REC is the 2830th ranked provider in the US for average monthly bill total. The company does not have ownership in any power plants and all of the power that they sell to their customers must be purchased from other providers. The supplier's customers are faced with an average of 0.68 electrical outages per customer a year. These outages last for an average of 71.31 minutes, while the national average is 1.44 outages per consumer and 123.49 minutes per outage.