Dakota Electric Association

About Dakota Electric Association

Dakota Electric Association provides electricity to 15 cities in the state including cities such as Lakeville, Eagan, Burnsville, Apple Valley, and Inver Grove Heights. The organization is an electric cooperative. Electricity companies must regularly report the total number of customers they have to government agencies. In the most recent report the supplier reported a total of 406 industrial customers, 8,336 commercial customers and 108,394 residential customers being supplied electricity by the company. This is the entirety of their customers. Dakota Electric Association has an average residential electricity rate of 14.42 cents per kilowatt hour, which ranks the provider 107th out of 174 suppliers in Minnesota and 1692nd out of 2885 in the country. Dakota Electric Association had total sales and disposition of 1,909,128 megawatt hours in 2023, of which 97.38% were via sales to end users. The electricity sourced was made up of megawatt hours acquired via wholesale channels. They purchased 1,909,128 megawatt hours on the wholesale market. Their total revenue in 2023 from electricity related activities was $219,131,000, with $215,790,000 from retail sales to end users.

The average monthly residential electric bill for a customer of Dakota Electric Association is $107.97 per month, while the US average is $143.38. Customers of the supplier are faced with 0.28 electrical outages on average each year, with outages lasting around 19.21 minutes on average. The national averages for outages and duration are 1.44 outages at 123.49 minutes each. Electricity generation is not handled in house at the company, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other providers to then be resold to their customers.