Rochester Public Utilities

About Rochester Public Utilities

Rochester Public Utilities is a municipally owned organization serving Rochester, Minnesota and rural areas of Olmsted County. The provider has 5,166 commercial accounts, 54,199 residential accounts and one industrial customer spread throughout their service area that they provide electricity services to. Rochester Public Utilities charges their consumers a residential electricity rate of 17.05 cents per kilowatt hour on average. Unfortunately for their patrons, this rate is above both the Minnesota and the national average rates of 15.54 and 15.76 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. The company had sales of 1,126,860 megawatt hours in 2022 by way of retail sales. The electricity sourced by the company is made up of multiple sources of megawatt hours including 75,579 megawatt hours generated by electricity plants owned by the company and 1,158,898 megawatt hours acquired on wholesale channels. Their total revenue in 2022 from electricity related activities was $167,384,300, with $8,864,000 coming from sales to the wholesale electricity market.

The Minnesota average monthly residential electricity bill is $106.75, while the Rochester Public Utilities average is 6.30% less at $98.23 per month. This is the 89th lowest average monthly bill amount for a supplier in the state. Electricity production facilities owned or managed by the company use non-renewable fuels to generate 82.91% of their total electricity generation, or 65,058.51 megawatt hours. This total ranks them at 312th in the country out of 3526 suppliers. The company currently does not produce their own electricity. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale prices and then resell it to end users. Electricity generation from sustainable fuels by the company totals 13,410.51 megawatt hours, which ranks the company 40th in Minnesota out of the 167 providers we track.