kWh Index

Golden Valley Elec Assn Inc.

Golden Valley Elec Assn Inc. is cooperative serving 40,675 residential customers in Alaska, at an average residential price of 30.32¢ 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 Alaska right now, see the state page, currently 28.21¢.

What it reported, by service

ServiceResidential customersResidentialCommercial
Bundled40,67530.32¢29.15¢

How often the power goes out

Minutes without power per customer, 2024552.9 minutes (SAIDI, including major event days)
Interruptions per customer2.64 (SAIFI)
Excluding major event days224.6 minutes the figure utilities are benchmarked on
Reported underIEEE standard

The headline figure includes major event days, because a customer who lost power for three days in a storm lost power for three days. See how this compares nationally.

Counties served

Denali, Fairbanks North Star, Southeast Fairbanks, Yukon Koyukuk.

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 Golden Valley Elec Assn Inc. reported to EIA; it is not an endorsement, and nothing here is a quote. Corrections and removal requests.