Prairie Land Electric Cooperative

About Prairie Land Electric Cooperative

Prairie Land Electric Cooperative serves electricity to 91 cities in Kansas including cities such as Concordia, Clay Center, Beloit, Norton, and Phillipsburg. The entity is an electricity cooperative. The supplier last disclosed a total of 13,446 residential customers, 8,807 commercial accounts and 2,333 industrial customer accounts, which makes up the whole of their customer base. On average, Prairie Land Electric Cooperative charges their patrons a residential electricity price of 12.51 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 6.67% lower than the US average rate of 13.40 cents. They had sales of 490,121 megawatt hours in 2020 by way of retail sales and 114,123 megawatt hours through the wholesale market. The purchase of wholesale electricity made up 100.00% of the electricity sourced by the company. Prairie Land Electric Cooperative earned $63,268,500 in 2020. $7,276,200 of which came from electricity sales on the wholesale market and $54,120,300 of which came from sales to retail electricity customers.

The state average monthly residential power bill is $115.23, while the Prairie Land Electric Cooperative average is 10.38% lower at $102.88 per month. This is the 80th lowest average monthly bill amount for a supplier in Kansas. Electricity production is not handled in house at the company, as they purchase power at wholesale rates and then resell to their customers.