Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative

About Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative

Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative serves electricity to 4 counties in Montana including counties like Yellowstone County, Big Horn County, Carbon County, and Stillwater County. The entity is an electric cooperative. At the time of the most recent government reports, the provider had a total of 22,161 electricity customers signed on for their services. This total is made up of 91.43% residential customer accounts, 7.51% commercial customer accounts and 1.06% industrial customers. On average, Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative charges their customers a residential electricity price of 12.46 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 7.41% above the state's average price of 11.60 cents and 16.04% more than the national average of 14.84 cents. In 2021 the company sold 95.91% of their total megawatt hours disposed via normal retail sales to end users. The electricity sourced by the company is made up of primarily wholesale purchased megawatt hours, with 313,985 megawatt hours procured by the company. Their total revenue in 2021 from electricity activities was $37,503,000, with $37,274,000 coming from retail sales to end users.

Consumers of the company pay an average residential electricity bill of $122.09. This is 7.39% below the nationwide average bill of $131.84. Electricity production is not part of the Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative business plan, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates and then resell to their consumers.