Riverland Energy Cooperative

About Riverland Energy Cooperative

Riverland Energy Cooperative is an electric cooperative with headquarters in Arcadia, Wisconsin and providing power to customers in 22 cities in Wisconsin including cities such as La Crosse, Onalaska, Holmen, West Salem, and French Island CDP. There are 13 industrial customers, 1,091 commercial accounts and 18,695 residential customers served by the company. On average, Riverland Energy Cooperative charges their customers a residential electricity rate of 16.38 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 1.59% more than the US average price of 16.13 cents, which ranks the provider 2291st lowest for average electricity rate out of 2885 companies in the country. The provider engaged in end user sales and the wholesale electricity market in 2023, with sales to end users totaling 293,041 megawatt hours and wholesale sales equaling 9,077 megawatt hours. The electricity sourced by the company is made up primarily of megawatt hours they procured on the wholesale electricity market. This category comprises 100.00% of all electricity sourced by the company. In 2023, the company made a total of $43,443,900 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had revenue of $590,300 coming from wholesale electricity sales and $42,853,600 from retail sales to end users.

The average residential electric bill for a consumer of Riverland Energy Cooperative is $170.92 per month, while the state average is $113. Electricity generation is not part of the Riverland Energy Cooperative business model, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other companies and then resell to their consumers. Customers of the company experience 0.77 power outages a year with outages lasting on average 82.1 minutes.