Rate Restructure

As a member-owned cooperative, our goal is to deliver reliable service while keeping your bills as fair and predictable as possible. To do this, we periodically evaluate how we recover our operational costs. We are introducing a revenue-neutral rate adjustment designed to better align our billing with actual usage without increasing our cooperative's overall revenue. This change will become effective on September 1, 2026 and you will see it on your October bill.

To help show how this impacts different households, we’ve included an example in this article. Here is a breakdown of what is changing, why we are doing it, and what it means for your monthly statement.

What is Changing?

Your bill consists of three main parts: the service availability charge, the Energy charge (the total power you consume), and the demand charge (the amount of power you need at any given time). We are rebalancing the energy charge and the demand charge.

Energy Charge: Single phase 75kVA or less, net metering, and self supply is lowering from $0.13185 to $0.10064 per kWh. Three phase 75kVA or less is lowering from $0.13160 to $0.10972 per kWh.

Demand Charge: Shifted from $2.00 per kW to $6.00 per kW for the rate classes listed above.

By lowering the cost of energy consumption and adjusting the demand charge, the overall revenue collected by the cooperative remains relatively the same.

How Does This Affect Your Bill?

Because this is revenue-neutral, the impact on your specific bill depends entirely on how you use power. Here is what members can expect:

High & Above-Average Users: Members who use a lot of total energy relative to their demand will actually see their bills decrease. For example, a high-usage household could see savings on their bill because the lower energy rate heavily outweighs the demand adjustment.

Average Users: For the typical household, the bill remains virtually unchanged.

Low Usage / High Demand Users: Members who use very little total energy but have a high demand consumption will see an increase. This group is most commonly made up of part-time or seasonal members, where a short period of high electricity use can create a significant demand charge despite low overall energy consumption.

Power in Your Hands

This new structure gives you more control. You can minimize your demand charge simply by spreading out your energy usage such as running your clothes dryer and dishwasher at different times rather than all at once. The good news is that many members’ bills will remain relatively unchanged AND you have the power to adjust your consumption which can lead to savings.