Roughrider Electric Cooperative

About Roughrider Electric Cooperative

Roughrider Electric Cooperative provides electricity for 5 counties in North Dakota such as the counties of Stark County, Mercer County, Dunn County, Oliver County, and Billings County. The company is an electricity cooperative. With 14,945 total consumers, the provider supplies electricity to 74 industrial locations, 3,849 commercial locations and 11,022 residential customer accounts. Roughrider Electric Cooperative charges their patrons a residential electricity rate of 10.63 cents per kilowatt hour on average. This is 24.64% below the US average rate of 14.11 cents, which ranks the supplier 749th out of 2923 suppliers in the nation for lowest average electricity price. They sold 2,889 megawatt hours through wholesale channels to other electricity providers in 2020. Wholesale power purchases made up 100.00% of all electricity sourced and 760,864 megawatt hours were procured on the wholesale electricity market. The revenue for Roughrider Electric Cooperative for 2020 from electricity sales was $75,714,000, with 97.35% coming from retail sales to end users and 1.65% from wholesale electricity sales.

The average monthly residential power bill for a consumer of Roughrider Electric Cooperative is $126.69 per month. Customers of the company pay 13.57% more compared to the rest of the state. The supplier does not have ownership in any electricity generation facilities and all of the megawatt hours that they sell to their consumers must be purchased wholesale from other providers.