North Slope Borough Power & Light

About North Slope Borough Power & Light

North Slope Borough Power & Light is a municipally owned organization located in Barro, Alaska and providing power to customers in 7 cities in Alaska such as the cities of Utqiagvik, Point Hope, Nuiqsut, Wainwright, and Anaktuvuk Pass. Presently, 1,492 consumers are supplied electricity by the supplier. These customers are a mix of 939 residential customer accounts and 553 commercial accounts. North Slope Borough Power & Light's patrons are billed an average residential electricity rate of 17.84 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 27.58% less than the average Alaska price of 24.63 cents and 9.98% more than the nationwide average of 16.22. Of the 34,910 megawatt hours the provider sold and dispossessed, 83.96% were from retail sales. Of the megawatt hours they sourced, 34,910 of them were produced by plants owned by the company. In 2019, the total revenue for North Slope Borough Power & Light was $7,660,600, which was earned entirely through electricity sales to retail customers.

The average monthly residential electricity bill for a customer of North Slope Borough Power & Light is $124.58, while the Alaska average is $143.9. The supplier generates 323rd megawatt hours from non-renewable fuels a year, making them 6th in the state out of 55 providers. The supplier currently does not produce any of the electricity that they sell. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale rates and then resell it at a higher rate to end users. North Slope Borough Power & Light produces 63,209.2 megawatt hours from their electricity plants, which ranks them as the 14th largest generator of electricity of all 55 electricity suppliers in the state.