Kansas · Electric cooperative · EIA data, final 2025
Wheatland Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates in Kansas
What Wheatland Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers, year by year since 2015, with the average bill, the other customer classes, meters, reliability and territory. Official figures, and context for a bill rather than a quote.
Wheatland Electric Cooperative billed its 10,925 commercial customers in Kansas an average of 11.88¢ per kWh in 2025, 6.2% above the state’s commercial average of 11.19¢. The average customer used about 3,763 kWh a month and was billed about $447. It is an average over every size of customer, not a rate.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data) · 2026-10-29
- Average commercial price, 202511.88¢per kWh, all commercial customers
- vs Kansas average+6.2%state commercial average 11.19¢
- Commercial customers10,9255th largest of 21 in Kansas
- Average use3,763 kWha month per commercial customer
- Average bill$447a month per commercial customer
- Since 2015+1.0%from 11.76¢ per kWh
- Outages121 mina year per customer · US average 124
Wheatland Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative serving 12 counties in Kansas. Among the 21 Kansas utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 5th largest, with about 4.5% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc.
Wheatland Electric Cooperative commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025
In 2015 Wheatland Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers an average of 11.76¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 11.88¢, so it rose 1.0% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Kansas rose 11% over the same period. The highest year was 2016, at 13.70¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 8.6%.
| Year | Commercial customers | Average price per kWh | Kansas average per kWh | Average use a month | Average bill a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10,925 | 11.88¢ | 11.19¢ | 3,763 kWh | $447 |
| 2024 | 10,900 | 10.94¢ | 11.19¢ | 3,789 kWh | $414 |
| 2023 | 10,988 | 10.01¢ | 10.85¢ | 3,726 kWh | $373 |
| 2022 | 11,098 | 11.73¢ | 11.51¢ | 3,705 kWh | $435 |
| 2021 | 11,063 | 11.01¢ | 10.52¢ | 3,672 kWh | $404 |
| 2020 | 10,951 | 10.35¢ | 10.40¢ | 3,708 kWh | $384 |
| 2019 | 10,847 | 10.92¢ | 10.29¢ | 3,835 kWh | $419 |
| 2018 | 10,825 | 11.31¢ | 10.66¢ | 3,981 kWh | $450 |
| 2017 | 10,785 | 11.36¢ | 10.59¢ | 3,925 kWh | $446 |
| 2016 | 11,153 | 13.70¢ | 10.47¢ | 3,181 kWh | $436 |
| 2015 | 10,479 | 11.76¢ | 10.10¢ | 1,997 kWh | $235 |
Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.
Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Wheatland Electric Cooperative
In 2025 the average commercial price at Wheatland Electric Cooperative was 21% below the residential figure and 1.5% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.
| Customer class | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Average price per kWh | Average use a month | Average bill a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 20,109 | 209,822 | 15.01¢ | 870 kWh | $130 |
| Commercial | 10,925 | 493,296 | 11.88¢ | 3,763 kWh | $447 |
| Industrial | 1,304 | 69,676 | 11.70¢ | 4,453 kWh | $521 |
How Wheatland Electric Cooperative’s commercial rates are set
Wheatland Electric Cooperative is a cooperative, owned by the members it serves. Its board sets its rates, and in some states the state commission reviews them as well. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. There is no competitive supply market for ordinary commercial accounts in Kansas, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.
Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Wheatland Electric Cooperative
EIA counts 10,925 commercial meters at Wheatland Electric Cooperative in 2025, and 10,921 of them (more than 99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 4 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.
At Wheatland Electric Cooperative, 9 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.1% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Wheatland Electric Cooperative reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.
EIA records 19 commercial net-metered generating systems at Wheatland Electric Cooperative in 2025, with 0.47 MW of capacity between them: about 1.7 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.
How reliable is Wheatland Electric Cooperative’s electric service?
Wheatland Electric Cooperative customers went without power for an average of 121 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 1.28 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 173 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.
Where Wheatland Electric Cooperative serves
EIA records Wheatland Electric Cooperative serving customers in 12 Kansas counties: Barton, Finney, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Harper, Kearny, Kingman, Logan, Scott, Wallace, Wichita. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.
EIA lists the Southwest Power Pool as its balancing authority. SPP is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.
Other utilities in Kansas
The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Kansas page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.
- Evergy Kansas Central (11.09¢)
- Evergy Kansas South (11.26¢)
- Evergy Metro (10.67¢)
- Midwest Energy (11.16¢)
- Pioneer Electric Cooperative (9.48¢)
What these figures can and cannot tell you
- They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
- They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Wheatland Electric Cooperative’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
- They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Kansas page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.
For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.
Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Wheatland Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.
Common questions about Wheatland Electric Cooperative
- What is the average commercial electricity rate at Wheatland Electric Cooperative?
- Wheatland Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers in Kansas an average of 11.88¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 6.2% above the Kansas commercial average of 11.19¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.
- How much is the average commercial electric bill at Wheatland Electric Cooperative?
- About $447 a month in 2025, on average use of about 3,763 kWh a month. That is Wheatland Electric Cooperative’s commercial revenue divided by its 10,925 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.
- Have Wheatland Electric Cooperative’s commercial electricity rates gone up?
- The average Wheatland Electric Cooperative billed commercial customers rose 1.0% between 2015 and 2025, from 11.76¢ to 11.88¢ per kWh. The Kansas commercial average rose 11% over the same period.
- How reliable is Wheatland Electric Cooperative’s electric service?
- Wheatland Electric Cooperative customers averaged 121 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).
- Does Wheatland Electric Cooperative use smart meters for businesses?
- EIA counts 10,921 advanced (AMI) meters among Wheatland Electric Cooperative’s 10,925 commercial meters in 2025, which is more than 99%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.
- Is this the rate my business will pay Wheatland Electric Cooperative?
- No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Wheatland Electric Cooperative’s tariff.
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