Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) commercial electricity rates in Michigan

• Average commercial price, 202516.43¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Michigan average+13%state commercial average 14.48¢
• Commercial customers11,0605th largest of 24 in Michigan
• Average use7,517 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$1,235a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+28%from 12.80¢ per kWh
• Outages92 mina year per customer · US average 124

Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) is a municipal utility serving 3 counties in Michigan. Among the 24 Michigan utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 5th largest, with about 1.9% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as City of Lansing.

Lansing Board of Water & Light commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Lansing Board of Water & Light billed its commercial customers an average of 12.80¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 16.43¢, so it rose 28% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Michigan rose 37% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 0.9%.

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 Lansing Board of Water & Light

In 2025 the average commercial price at Lansing Board of Water & Light was 15% below the residential figure and 38% 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.

How Lansing Board of Water & Light’s commercial rates are set

Lansing Board of Water & Light is owned by the community it serves. Its rates are set locally, by the city council or a utility board, and in most states the state commission does not set them. 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. What a business in Michigan can and cannot choose is on the Michigan page.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Lansing Board of Water & Light

EIA counts 11,225 commercial meters at Lansing Board of Water & Light in 2025, and 11,139 of them (99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 86 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 Lansing Board of Water & Light, 111 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 1.0% 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 Lansing Board of Water & Light reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.

EIA records 43 commercial net-metered generating systems at Lansing Board of Water & Light in 2025, with 5.53 MW of capacity between them: about 3.9 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 Lansing Board of Water & Light’s electric service?

Lansing Board of Water & Light customers went without power for an average of 92 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.82 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 422 minutes. This utility reports on a different measurement standard, so the comparison is only approximate. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Lansing Board of Water & Light serves

EIA records Lansing Board of Water & Light serving customers in 3 Michigan counties: Clinton, Eaton, Ingham. 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 MISO as its balancing authority. MISO is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Michigan

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Michigan page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Consumers Energy (16.22¢)
• DTE Energy (13.93¢)
• Indiana Michigan Power (12.34¢)
• Great Lakes Energy (17.53¢)

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 Lansing Board of Water & Light’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 Michigan 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: Lansing Board of Water & Light commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Lansing Board of Water & Light

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Lansing Board of Water & Light?

Lansing Board of Water & Light billed its commercial customers in Michigan an average of 16.43¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 13% above the Michigan commercial average of 14.48¢. 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 Lansing Board of Water & Light?

About $1,235 a month in 2025, on average use of about 7,517 kWh a month. That is Lansing Board of Water & Light’s commercial revenue divided by its 11,060 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Lansing Board of Water & Light’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Lansing Board of Water & Light billed commercial customers rose 28% between 2015 and 2025, from 12.80¢ to 16.43¢ per kWh. The Michigan commercial average rose 37% over the same period.

How reliable is Lansing Board of Water & Light’s electric service?

Lansing Board of Water & Light customers averaged 92 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Lansing Board of Water & Light use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 11,139 advanced (AMI) meters among Lansing Board of Water & Light’s 11,225 commercial meters in 2025, which is 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 Lansing Board of Water & Light?

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 Lansing Board of Water & Light’s tariff.