Lower Yellowstone Electric REA

About Lower Yellowstone Electric REA

Lower Yellowstone Electric REA is an electric cooperative located in Sidney, Montana and providing electricity to customers in 2 states in the country. Presently, 6,247 consumers are supplied electricity by the supplier. These customers are a mix of 4,236 residential accounts, 879 commercial customers and 1,132 industrial properties. On average, Lower Yellowstone Electric REA's consumers spend 8.61 cents per kilowatt hour for their residential electricity, which is 44.94% less than the nationwide average of 15.64 cents. Of the 324,080 megawatt hours Lower Yellowstone Electric REA sold and dispossessed, 99.73% were from retail sales. During the same timeframe, Lower Yellowstone Electric REA procured 337,374 megawatt hours via the wholesale electricity market. In 2022, the provider made a total of $34,229,800 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had 96.57% of their revenue coming from retail sales to end users.

The US average monthly residential electricity bill is $132.69, while the Lower Yellowstone Electric REA average is 14.06% less at $114.04 per month. This is the 1245th lowest average monthly bill amount for a supplier in the United States. The supplier's consumers are faced with an average of 0.7 power outages per customer a year. These outages are on average 129.6 minutes, while the national average is 1.27 outages per consumer and 137.24 minutes each outage. The provider does not have ownership in any electricity generation facilities and all of the megawatt hours that they sell to their customers must be purchased wholesale from other providers.