NorthWestern Energy

About NorthWestern Energy

NorthWestern Energy supplies electricity to 3 states throughout the nation. Electricity companies must regularly report the total number of customers they have to government agencies. On the most recent reports the provider disclosed 469,722 customers receiving their services. Around 0.47% of these customers are industrial properties, 19.55% are commercial accounts and 79.98% are residential accounts. The average residential electricity price for customers of NorthWestern Energy is around 14.01 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 11.09% lower than the national average price of 15.76 cents. They sold 2,575,724 megawatt hours through wholesale channels to other electricity suppliers in 2022. Electricity generation and wholesale power purchases made up 49.60% and 50.40%, respectively, of the total electricity sourced by the company. Electricity plants the company owns produced 5,615,540 megawatt hours and an additional 5,705,881 megawatt hours were acquired by way of wholesale channels. NorthWestern Energy made $1,312,911,100 in 2022. Exactly $240,059,000 of that revenue came from electricity sales on the wholesale market and $951,813,800 came from sales to retail electricity customers.

Customers of the company pay an average monthly residential power bill of $103.04. This is 23.87% lower than the national average of $135.34. Electricity plants owned by NorthWestern Energy produce 5,002,976.35 megawatt hours, which is the 169th highest in the US out of 3526 suppliers. Electricity production facilities owned by the company use non-renewable fuels to generate 49.51% of their total electricity generation, or 2,477,183.35 megawatt hours. They rank 174th out of 3526 companies in the nation. Wind turbines operated by the supplier generate 333,061 megawatt hours, which is 6.66% of the electricity generation by the supplier.