Tongue River Electric Cooperative

About Tongue River Electric Cooperative

Tongue River Electric Cooperative is an electricity cooperative headquartered in Ashland, Montana and serving customers in Montana including in cities such as Miles City, Lame Deer CDP, Ashland CDP, Muddy CDP, and Busby CDP. The company has a total of 5,162 customers. There are 4,390 residential accounts, 617 commercial customer accounts and 155 industrial customers. On average, Tongue River Electric Cooperative charges their customers a residential electricity price of 14.25 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 8.89% lower than the US average price of 15.64 cents, ranking the company at 2023rd out of 2893 companies in the country for lowest average electricity price. They had total sales and disposition of 105,433 megawatt hours in 2019, of which 96,983 megawatt hours were via retail sales. Of the megawatt hours they sourced, 105,433 megawatt hours were procured via wholesale channels. In 2019 they had total electricity related revenue of $12,794,000, with 100.00% coming from retail sales.

The state average monthly residential electricity bill is $108.63, while the Tongue River Electric Cooperative average is 34.96% more at $155.02 per month. Tongue River Electric Cooperative ranks 32nd in the state for average monthly bill total. Electricity generation is not part of the Tongue River Electric Cooperative business model, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other companies and then resell to their end users.