Electric utility · EIA utility id 56146
Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC
- Ownership, as EIA reports it
- Investor Owned
- States served
- CO
- Customers in 2025
- 111,502
- Sales in 2025
- 1,754,156 MWh
- Revenue in 2025
- $258,586,000
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861) · data for 2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
What it sells and charges
Full service (energy and delivery)
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue | Average price (cents per kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 97,888 | 594,925 | $111,320,400 | 18.71 |
| Commercial | 13,554 | 821,133 | $110,057,500 | 13.40 |
| Industrial | 60 | 338,098 | $37,208,100 | 11.01 |
Its average price is 19% above the state average for residential customers (15.69 cents per kWh in CO).
How we got this
$111,320,400 residential revenue ÷ 594,925,000 kWh residential sales = 18.71 cents per kWh
Average price is revenue divided by sales, for full-service customers only. It averages every rate and every month, so one household's price can differ. State averages count revenue from every kind of service and sales only once, as EIA does.
Trends, 2021 to 2025
Trend table
| Year | Residential average price (cents per kWh) | Customers |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17.99 | 99,535 |
| 2022 | 19.39 | 100,423 |
| 2023 | 17.42 | 101,100 |
| 2024 | 17.05 | 101,718 |
| 2025 | 18.71 | 111,502 |
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Annual Electric Power Industry Report (Form EIA-861), 2021 to 2025 · data for 2021-2025 · as of Oct 7, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Oct 7, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Annual peak demand
Not reported to FERC. Only utilities that plan or balance their own system file Form 714.
Its balancing authority, Public Service Company of Colorado, peaked at 8,524 MW in 2025. That is the balancing authority's peak, not this utility's.
Catalyst Cooperative (PUDL), from FERC Form 714 · Annual peak demand by planning area (FERC Form 714, through PUDL) · data for 2006-2025 · as of Oct 14, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Jan 14, 2027. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.
Reliability
| State | Standard | SAIDI with major events (minutes) | SAIFI with major events | SAIDI without major events (minutes) | SAIFI without major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO | IEEE 1366 | 94.518 | 0.898 | 94.518 | 0.897 |
SAIDI is the average minutes without power per customer in the year; SAIFI is how many outages the average customer had. Major event days are storms and similar rare days, counted with and without.
Generation it operates
| Fuel | Capacity | Net generation in 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Wind | 89.8 MW | 250,132 MWh |
| Distillate fuel oil | 20 MW | -779 MWh |
| Natural gas | 0 MWh |
This is generation the utility operates, not the full mix of power it buys. EIA does not publish that mix for each utility.
Plants it operates
- Rocky Ford · CO · 10 MW
- Airport Industrial · CO · 10 MW
- Busch Ranch Wind Energy · CO · 29 MW
- Peak View Wind Farm · CO · 60.8 MW
Published rates
18 rates in the OpenEI database, newest updated Jun 3, 2020.
OpenEI (National Laboratory of the Rockies), with rates entered by contributors · U.S. Utility Rate Database (OpenEI) · data for 2026-10 · as of Oct 30, 2026 · retrieved Oct 31, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0 May be out of date. The next release was due by Nov 30, 2026. Last checked for an update: Oct 31, 2026.