Marias River Electric Cooperative

About Marias River Electric Cooperative

Marias River Electric Cooperative is an electricity cooperative headquartered in Shelby, Montana and serving customers in Montana including in cities such as Shelby, Sunburst, Hillside Colony CDP, Rimrock Colony CDP, and Kevin. The company has a total of 3,823 customers. There are 2,510 residential accounts and 1,313 commercial customer accounts. The average residential electricity rate for customers of Marias River Electric Cooperative is about 10.36 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 18.87% less than the average Montana rate of 12.76 cents and 33.77% below the US average of 15.64. The company sold 182 megawatt hours through wholesale channels to other electricity companies in 2019. The electricity sourced by the company is made up primarily of megawatt hours they procured by way of wholesale channels. This category makes up 100.00% of all electricity sourced. The total revenue for Marias River Electric Cooperative for 2019 from electricity sales was $7,063,000, with 1.23% coming from sales to the wholesale electricity market and 98.77% from retail sales to end users.

The state average monthly residential electricity bill is $108.63, while the Marias River Electric Cooperative average is 5.37% below at $101.5 per month. This is the 6th lowest average monthly bill amount for a supplier in Montana. Electricity generation is not part of the Marias River Electric Cooperative business model, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other companies and then resell to their end users.