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. Patrons of Butler County REC are billed an average residential electricity price of 16.25 cents per kilowatt hour. This is, regrettably for their consumers, 25.29% higher than the state's average price of 12.97 cents. They sold 33,892 megawatt hours through wholesale channels to other electricity providers and 270,513 megawatt hours through retail sales in 2023. The electricity sourced by the provider came from a mix of electricity generation from power facilities owned by Butler County REC and supplementary megawatt hours that they acquired via the wholesale electricity market. They generated 487 megawatt hours and purchased 310,050 wholesale megawatt hours. 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 $27,762,700 coming from retail sales to end users and $2,984,400 from sales to the wholesale market.

The nationwide average monthly residential electric bill is $143.38, while the Butler County REC average is 59.51% higher at $228.7 per month. Butler County REC is the 2846th 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.