Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp electricity: 47,859 accounts in Minnesota, SAIDI 74

In Minnesota, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp bills 47,859 accounts, 93.4% residential, as an cooperative utility. Among the 9 Minnesota cooperative utilities listed here it is number 2 on price for homes, -0.65 ¢ from their median.

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp: 809 kWh a month costs roughly $108 in energy at 13.33 ¢/kWh, -13.7% on the Minnesota average of 15.45 ¢.

Among the 9 Minnesota cooperative utilities listed here it is number 2 on price for homes, -0.65 ¢ from their median.

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & against its kind: Minnesota cooperatives

Home price place, Minnesota cooperatives: 2 of 9-0.65 ¢ from the median of 13.98 ¢

Take the 9 Minnesota cooperative utilities listed here, sorted by home price: Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp is number 2 of 9 at 13.33 ¢, while the group median is 13.98 ¢. The cheapest is Lake Region Electric Cooperative (MN) at 13.28 ¢, +0.05 ¢ from here; the most expensive is Lake Country Power (MN), 4.57 ¢ above.

On outage minutes it ranks 6 of 9 (1 = fewest), with 74 against a group median of 57. By accounts it is number 6, with 47,859 against 146,640 for Connexus Energy.

How it compares

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp, 2024	Home	Business	Bill	SAIDI
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp	13.33 ¢/kWh	11.50 ¢/kWh	$108at 809 kWh	74 minSAIDI
Minnesota average against this company, which is 3 of 16 on price	+2.12 ¢/kWhcompany 13.7% below	+0.65 ¢/kWhcompany 5.3% below	+$17a month at 809 kWh	-11 mincompany 11 above
Lake Region Electric CooperativeLowest in this table	13.28 ¢/kWhcompany 0.4% above	10.47 ¢/kWhcompany 9.9% above	$1070 less than company	102 mincompany 29 below

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Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp: 2025

Crow Wing Cooperative Power &: +7.3% on 2024 for homes, Minnesota +2.4%.

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & home price, 2025: 14.30 ¢/kWh+7.3% on 2024, early release
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & SAIDI, 2025: 62 min-16% on 2024, early release
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & against Minnesota, 2025: +4.9 pointsCrow Wing Cooperative Power & +7.3%, Minnesota +2.4%, price in Minnesota 15.82 ¢

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp reported 14.30 ¢/kWh for homes in 2025, +7.3% on its 2024 figure of 13.33, while the Minnesota average moved +2.4%. Its SAIDI is 62 minutes against 74 in 2024.

Carbon context

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp serves 44,698 homes in Minnesota. At 809 kWh a month that is about 274 kg of CO₂, or 3,291 kg a year, at the Minnesota plant rate, state generation and not this utility: Minnesota generation mix.

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp charts

Residential price since 2015: 13.33 ¢ in 2024

11.34 ¢ in 2015, 13.33 ¢ in 2024 (+17.5%); Minnesota 12.12 to 15.45 ¢.

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp residential price 2015-2024, 2015 to 2024: 10 rows

Year	Crow Wing Cooperative Power	Gap to Minnesota residential	Gap to U.S. residential
2015	11.34	-0.78	-1.31
2016	11.92	-0.75	-0.63
2017	12.28	-0.76	-0.61
2018	11.93	-1.21	-0.94
2019	12.05	-0.99	-0.96
2020	12.16	-1.01	-0.99
2021	12.17	-1.33	-1.49
2022	12.80	-1.45	-2.24
2023	12.97	-1.76	-3.03
2024	13.33	-2.12	-3.15

10 rows from EIA retail sales.

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Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp SAIDI, 2015-2024

71 min in 2015, 74 in 2024.

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp SAIDI by year, 2015 to 2024: 10 rows

Year	Crow Wing Cooperative , no major events
2015	71
2016	89
2017	67
2018	74
2019	66
2020	56
2021	84
2022	77
2023	56
2024	74

10 rows from EIA-861 survey.

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Reliability: SAIDI 73.8 min

73.8 min, 0.74x the median reporter, rank 246 of 673.

min

Company, no major events73.8
Company, with major events122.8

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp, Reliability: EIA-861 survey.

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Analyst note

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp billed homes 11.34 ¢/kWh in 2015 and 13.33 ¢ in 2024, +17.5% in all, and lagged the Minnesota average (+27.5%) by 10.0 points. Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp's sharpest move came in 2022, +5.2%. The latest year is the high at 13.33 ¢; the low was 11.34 ¢ (2015). 2024: +2.8% here, +4.9% for the Minnesota average. SAIDI at Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp (major events excluded) went from 71 minutes in 2015 to 74 in 2024, +3%, between 56 (2020) and 89 (2016). At 74 minutes in 2024, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp sat -26 from the national SAIDI median, with 10 of 10 years below it. 2022: 1196 minutes with major events, 77 without, the widest gap of any year. Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp has 2 cheaper and 13 higher-priced Minnesota peers among 16 with 20,000+ homes. Next cheaper, Lake Region Electric Cooperative, bills 13.28 ¢ (-0.05). Next higher-priced, Connexus Energy, bills 13.66 ¢ (+0.33).

Two good signs together. Rates are 13.7% below Minnesota and outage time of 74 minutes beats the national median by 26%.

Home accounts at Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp went from 40,643 in 2015 to 44,698 in 2024, +10.0%. Business customers paid 0.86 times the home price in 2024 (11.50 against 13.33 ¢); the ratio was 0.90 in 2015. SAIFI went from 0.65 in 2015 to 0.65 in 2024, between 0.54 and 0.84.

Outages and home price of Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp (EIA utility 4577), 2013 to 2024

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp outage time held near 73 to 74 minutes a customer from 2013 to 2024 (+1%). The low came in 2014 at 55, the high in 2016 at 89; 12 years were filed. The Minnesota median in 2024 was 57 minutes, so Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp ran above it.

Home rates at Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp went from 10.71 ¢ in 2013 to 13.33 ¢ in 2024 (+24.5%), which is 14.80 ¢ to 13.68 ¢ in 2025 dollars (−7.5%). Over 12,000 kWh a year the real price meant $1,776 in 2013 and $1,642 in 2024. Of 45 Minnesota utilities with 1,000+ home accounts in 2024, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp stood 14th cheapest (37th of 99 in 2013).

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp outage minutes a customer, 2013 to 2024: 74 in 2024

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp at 74 min in 2024 and the Minnesota median at 57.

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp home price since 2013: −7.5% after inflation

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp: 13.68 ¢ in 2025 dollars (solid) and 13.33 ¢ as billed (dashed) in 2024.

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp, EIA utility 4577, year by year among Minnesota utilities

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & 2013-2024: 12 rows

Year, Crow Wing Cooperat	¢ billed	¢ in 2025 $	Price place, Crow Wing Coop	SAIDI min	SAIFI	SAIDI place, Crow Wing Coop	Minnesota median SAIDI
2013	10.71	14.80	37 of 99	73	0.71	19 of 35	66
2014	10.89	14.81	40 of 99	55	0.64	13 of 39	74
2015	11.34	15.41	44 of 100	71	0.65	22 of 41	67
2016	11.92	15.99	48 of 98	89	0.76	24 of 45	89
2017	12.28	16.12	48 of 99	67	0.55	20 of 43	68
2018	11.93	15.29	44 of 99	74	0.70	23 of 49	80
2019	12.05	15.18	48 of 114	66	0.63	19 of 48	79
2020	12.16	15.13	15 of 43	56	0.54	14 of 31	62
2021	12.17	14.46	12 of 43	84	0.84	21 of 33	66
2022	12.80	14.08	18 of 43	77	0.70	20 of 33	67
2023	12.97	13.70	16 of 43	56	0.58	17 of 34	59
2024	13.33	13.68	14 of 45	74	0.65	23 of 36	57

Crow Wing Cooperative Po, EIA utility 4577: EIA-861, CPI-U.

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SAIDI explained, Minnesota real prices.

Facts

Customer accounts: 47,8591.7% of Minnesota total
Residential accounts: 44,6981.7% of Minnesota homes
Commercial accounts: 2,9356.1% of the base
Residential rate: 13.33 ¢/kWhplace 3 of 16, -13.7% against the state
Commercial rate: 11.50 ¢/kWhplace 12 of 34, -5.3% against the state
SAIDI, no major events: 73.8 minbetter than 64% of reporters
SAIFI, no major events: 0.650.64x the median
SAIDI with major events: 122.8 min39.9% from event days
Net-metered capacity: 4.9 MW452 installations
Counties served: 4all in Minnesota
Average residential use: 9,704 kWh/yr809 a month
Implied monthly bill: $108-$25 on the U.S. rate, 809 kWh
Residential rate since 2015: +17.5%11.34 to 13.33 ¢/kWh
SAIDI trend: +3%71 min in 2015, 74 in 2024

Data tables

2024 by sector, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp sector	Accounts	Rate ¢/kWh	Gap to Minnesota ¢/kWh
Residential	44,698	13.33	-2.12
Commercial	2,935	11.50	-0.65

Year by year, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp

Year	Home accounts, Crow Wing Cooperative	Home ¢	Business ¢	Ratio	SAIDI	SAIFI
2015	40,643	11.34	10.15	0.90	71	0.65
2016	40,945	11.92	10.12	0.85	89	0.76
2017	41,264	12.28	10.39	0.85	67	0.55
2018	41,638	11.93	10.42	0.87	74	0.70
2019	41,964	12.05	10.45	0.87	66	0.63
2020	42,378	12.16	10.23	0.84	56	0.54
2021	43,083	12.17	10.70	0.88	84	0.84
2022	43,694	12.80	10.48	0.82	77	0.70
2023	44,154	12.97	10.66	0.82	56	0.58
2024	44,698	13.33	11.50	0.86	74	0.65

Peers of Crow Wing Cooperative Power & in Minnesota, place 3 of 16 on home price

Utility near Crow Wing Cooperative Power & on price	SAIDI min, gap to Crow Wing Cooperative Power &	Home ¢, gap to Crow Wing Cooperative Power &	Gap % to Crow Wing Cooperative Power &	Accounts, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & = 1
1. Otter Tail Power Co	+68	-2.00	-15.0%	1.32
2. Lake Region Electric Cooperative	+29	-0.05	-0.4%	0.63
3. Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp (this utility)	74	13.33	-	1.00
4. Connexus Energy	-44	+0.33	+2.5%	3.06
5. Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn	-17	+0.54	+4.1%	0.60
6. Minnesota Valley Electric Coop	-32	+0.65	+4.9%	1.00

Who buys Crow Wing Cooperative Power &'s electricity

Class at Crow Wing Cooperative Power &	Accounts	Of Crow Wing Cooperative Power & accounts	Of Crow Wing Cooperative Power & MWh sold	kWh a year per Crow Wing Cooperative Power & account
Residential	44,698	93.4%	63.3%	9,704
Commercial	2,935	6.1%	20.8%	48,517
Industrial and other	226	0.47%	15.9%	480,637

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & among Minnesota cooperatives

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & and its neighbours on price	SAIDI min, gap to Crow Wing Cooperative Power &	Home ¢, gap to Crow Wing Cooperative Power &	Accounts, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & = 1
1. Lake Region Electric Cooperative (MN)	+29	-0.05	0.63
2. Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp (MN, this utility)	74	13.33	1.00
3. Connexus Energy (MN)	-44	+0.33	3.06
4. Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn (MN)	-17	+0.54	0.60
5. Minnesota Valley Electric Coop (MN)	-32	+0.65	1.00
6. Dakota Electric Association (MN)	-56	+0.67	2.44
7. Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn (MN)	-50	+1.26	1.18
8. East Central Energy (MN)	+10	+3.56	1.30
9. Lake Country Power (MN)	+114	+4.57	1.07

Crow Wing Cooperative Power &: meters, rate options and solar

Measure	Crow Wing Cooperative Power &	Minnesota context	Crow Wing Cooperative Power & detail
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & home meters on AMI	100.0%	Minnesota 87.5%	58,615 of 58,615 meters
Homes with daily digital access	39,565	Minnesota figure not published	89% of the 44,698 home accounts
Time-of-use rate for Crow Wing Cooperative Power & homes	Offered	21 of 37 Minnesota utilities offer one	68 homes on dynamic pricing, 0.15% of 44,698
Net-metered installations	452	88% residential	8.9 homes per 1,000 accounts, 10.8 kW average

Monthly energy cost by use, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp

kWh	Share of a 809 kWh month	Cost a month at 13.33 ¢	vs U.S.	Cost a year
250	31%	$33.33	-$7.87	$400
500	62%	$66.65	-$15.75	$800
750	93%	$99.98	-$23.62	$1,200
1,000	124%	$133.30	-$31.50	$1,600
1,500	185%	$199.96	-$47.24	$2,399
2,000	247%	$266.61	-$62.99	$3,199

Outage record, Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp

Measure, Crow Wing Cooperativ	No events	All events	Converted
SAIDI minutes	73.8	122.8	1.23 h
SAIFI interruptions	0.650	0.819	1.54 yr apart
CAIDI minutes	113.5	149.9	1.89 h

Territory of Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp

4 Minnesota counties, region MRO:

Minnesota other states: 4 of 4 counties of Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp drawn

Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp: 4 counties listed by EIA-861, Census 2023 outlines.

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County list

Cass
Crow Wing
Morrison
Todd

Questions on Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp

How big is Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp in Minnesota, by customer accounts?

47,859 accounts in 2024: residential 44,698, commercial 2,935, industrial 226.

How many cents per kWh does Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp charge homes?

In 2024 homes paid 13.33 cents; against the Minnesota average that is -13.7%.

What are the SAIDI and SAIFI of Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp?

SAIDI 73.8 min and SAIFI 0.65 a year, major events excluded; ratio to the national median 0.74, CAIDI 114 min.

How many net-metered systems connect to Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp?

452 installations with 4.9 MW, of which residential installations number 400.

What would a typical Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp home pay each month?

809 kWh at 13.33 cents comes to about $108, energy only.

Is Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp cheaper than other Minnesota utilities?

Rank 3 of 16 in Minnesota on price, -13.7% against the state average; 2 charge less than 13.33 ¢.

What share of Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp sales do homes buy?

Homes take 63.3% of 684,767 MWh, commercial accounts 20.8%, industrial and other 15.9%; the 2,935 commercial accounts use 48,517 kWh each, 5.0 times a home.

At Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp, are smart meters in homes, with a TOU option?

58,615 of 58,615 home meters are AMI, 100.0%. Crow Wing Cooperative Power & offers a home time-of-use rate; 68 customers use dynamic pricing, 0.15% of its homes.

Has Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp moved up the Minnesota price list since 2015?

6th cheapest of 14 in 2015, 3rd of 16 in 2024; its price rose 17.5% while Minnesota rose 27.5%.

Where does Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp stand among 8 peers?

Place 2 of 9 on home price at 13.33 ¢ (Minnesota cooperatives); median 13.98 ¢, cheapest member 13.28 ¢.

What did Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp charge homes in 2025?

14.30 cents per kWh, +7.3% on the 13.33 of 2024 (EIA early release for 2025).

Utilities with a similar home price

Home prices nearest to Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp at 13.33 ¢/kWh in 2024, among companies with a page here, any state.

Arkansas Valley Elec Coop CorpArkansas, 13.33 ¢/kWh, 0.00 ¢ below
Southwestern Public Service CoTexas, 13.35 ¢/kWh, 0.02 ¢ above
South River Elec Member CorpNorth Carolina, 13.30 ¢/kWh, 0.03 ¢ below
Union Electric Membership CorpNorth Carolina, 13.37 ¢/kWh, 0.04 ¢ above

Rate plans on file

4 home plan records, energy charges: 5.3 to 12.4 ¢/kWh.

Time-of-use: 1, e.g. Residential
Tiered: 2, e.g. Residential

Who offers time-of-use and tiered rates (17 Apr 2026 snapshot).

Primary sources for Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp electricity: 47,859 accounts in Minnesota, SAIDI 74

EIA-861 annual report entry for Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp electricity: 47,859 accounts in Minnesota, SAIDI 74, customers and sales
EIA-861 form instructions for Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp electricity: 47,859 accounts in Minnesota, SAIDI 74, how a customer is counted
EIA state profiles for Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp electricity: 47,859 accounts in Minnesota, SAIDI 74, the state price average