kWh Index

Dakota Energy Coop Inc.

Dakota Energy Coop Inc. is cooperative serving 3,224 residential customers in South Dakota, at an average residential price of 15.30¢ per kilowatt-hour.

That price is derived, and it is annual. It is total residential revenue divided by total residential sales in EIA’s 2024 survey — not a tariff, and not this month’s rate. For what a kilowatt-hour costs in South Dakota right now, see the state page, currently 15.36¢.

What it reported, by service

ServiceResidential customersResidentialCommercial
Bundled3,22415.30¢9.89¢

How often the power goes out

Dakota Energy Coop Inc. did not report reliability figures in the 2024 survey. 227 of 972 utilities do not, and an absence here is exactly that — not a claim of an outage-free year.

Counties served

Beadle, Buffalo, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn, Spink, Sully.

From EIA’s 2024 service-territory report. More than one utility can serve a county.

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Source: EIA-861 annual electric utility survey, data year 2024. Public domain. This page is a record of what Dakota Energy Coop Inc. reported to EIA; it is not an endorsement, and nothing here is a quote. Corrections and removal requests.