Minnesota · Cooperative
BENCO Electric Cooperative
16.14¢ per kWh, bundled, EIA-861 2025. Average bill $157.87 at 977.9 kWh a month, across 18,500 customers on that row.
Minnesota averaged 15.83¢/kWh and $117.67 a month. The United States averaged 17.23¢/kWh and $150.68. State and national figures come from EIA's Average Bill file.
Revenue divided by sales, EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2025, released October 7, 2026. Texas wires utilities come from the Delivery Companies file. The price and bill use bundled service. Customer count: 18,500, the largest residential count across service types.
Estimate a bill
The figure below is this utility's 2025 EIA residential average.
2025 EIA average
$161.40
16.14¢/kWh × 1,000 kWh. Bundled residential average, EIA-861 2025. The customer charge is already folded into this average, so it stands beside a tariff total rather than being added to it.
Annual history
| Year | ¢/kWh | Avg. bill | Avg. kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12.74¢ | $137.03 | 1,075.9 | 14,954 |
| 2016 | 13.15¢ | $141.52 | 1,076.1 | 16,838 |
| 2017 | 13.46¢ | $141.03 | 1,047.8 | 16,942 |
| 2018 | 13.89¢ | $133.58 | 961.7 | 16,356 |
| 2019 | 13.73¢ | $143.30 | 1,043.9 | 17,336 |
| 2020 | 13.88¢ | $145.80 | 1,050.3 | 17,454 |
| 2021 | 14.43¢ | $149.17 | 1,033.7 | 17,643 |
| 2022 | 14.85¢ | $151.30 | 1,018.7 | 17,999 |
| 2023 | 15.21¢ | $152.82 | 1,004.8 | 18,213 |
| 2024 | 15.03¢ | $141.60 | 942.2 | 18,361 |
| 2025 | 16.14¢ | $157.87 | 977.9 | 18,500 |
EIA-861, 2015–2025, using the same service type as the 2025 figure. A blank year means that service was not in the file.
Counties
Blue Earth, Faribault, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Sibley.
EIA-861 Service Territory, 2025. A listed county is the county EIA recorded. It does not mean every address in the county is served. Open this utility in the bill calculator · Rate history tool