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 4,248 total customers, the supplier provides electricity to 762 industrial customers, 9 commercial locations and 3,477 residential customers. Customers of Butler County REC are charged an average residential electricity rate of 14.09 cents per kilowatt hour, which is, luckily for their customers, 10.57% less than the average nationwide rate of 15.76 cents. The company participated in both the retail sales and the wholesale electricity market in 2022, with sales to end users adding up to 248,806 megawatt hours and wholesale sales equaling 35,929 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 2022, they made a total of $29,249,200 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had revenue of $3,186,100 coming from sales to the wholesale electricity market.

The nationwide average monthly residential electric bill is $135.34, while the Butler County REC average is 48.54% higher at $201.03 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 1.04 electrical outages per customer a year. These outages last for an average of 75.93 minutes, while the national average is 1.45 outages per consumer and 171.11 minutes per outage.