NorthWestern Energy

About NorthWestern Energy

NorthWestern Energy supplies electricity to 3 states throughout the nation. Electricity companies must regularly report the total number of customers they have to government agencies. On the most recent reports the provider disclosed 457,090 customers receiving their services. Around 0.45% of these customers are industrial properties, 19.53% are commercial accounts and 80.02% are residential accounts. The average residential electricity price for customers of NorthWestern Energy is around 12.06 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 14.54% lower than the national average price of 14.11 cents. They sold 2,326,804 megawatt hours through wholesale channels to other electricity suppliers in 2020. Electricity generation and wholesale power purchases made up 46.32% and 53.47%, respectively, of the total electricity sourced by the company. Electricity plants the company owns produced 4,921,994 megawatt hours and an additional 5,681,277 megawatt hours were acquired by way of wholesale channels. NorthWestern Energy made $1,050,012,900 in 2020. Exactly $87,872,600 of that revenue came from electricity sales on the wholesale market and $876,747,900 came from sales to retail electricity customers.

Customers of the company pay an average monthly residential power bill of $90.2. This is 28.38% lower than the national average of $125.95. Electricity plants owned by NorthWestern Energy produce 4,873,172.54 megawatt hours, which is the 178th highest in the US out of 3509 suppliers. Electricity production facilities owned by the company use non-renewable fuels to generate 51.37% of their total electricity generation, or 2,503,236.54 megawatt hours. They rank 181st out of 3509 companies in the nation. Wind turbines operated by the supplier generate 284,425 megawatt hours, which is 5.84% of the electricity generation by the supplier.