Wrangell, Alaska Electric Utility

About Wrangell, Alaska Electric Utility

Wrangell, Alaska Electric Utility is a municipally owned organization operating in Wrangell and, Alaska and additional areas of Wrangell City and Borough. There are 1,849 customers of the supplier. Exactly 1,110 of them are residential accounts and 739 of them are commercial properties. Customers of Wrangell, Alaska Electric Utility are charged an average residential electricity rate of 11.98 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 49.61% lower than the average Alaska rate of 23.77 cents. In 2019 the company had sales to end users totaling 34,166 megawatt hours. The electricity sourced by the company came from a blend of electricity generation from electricity plants owned by Wrangell, Alaska Electric Utility and additional megawatt hours that they purchased on the wholesale electricity market. They generated 614 megawatt hours and purchased 37,355 megawatt hours on the wholesale market. Their revenue in 2019 from electricity activities was $4,130,000, with $3,920,000 coming from retail sales to end users.

The US average monthly residential electricity bill is $135.34, while the Wrangell, Alaska Electric Utility average is 2.95% less at $131.35 per month. This is the 1752nd lowest average monthly bill amount for a provider in the nation. The supplier currently does not produce their own electricity. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale rates and then resell it to end users. Electricity generation plants owned by the supplier use non-renewable fuel types to generate 100.00% of their total electricity production, or 497 megawatt hours. They rank 458th out of 3526 companies in the nation. Electricity generation facilities associated with or owned by Wrangell, Alaska Electric Utility generate a total of 497 megawatt hours, which is the 33rd highest amount in Alaska out of 3526 companies.