Xcel Energy North Dakota (Northern States Power) commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202512.33¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs North Dakota average+68%state commercial average 7.36¢
• Commercial customers13,4813rd largest of 12 in North Dakota
• Average use6,060 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$747a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+33%from 9.26¢ per kWh
• Outages57 mina year per customer · US average 124

Xcel Energy North Dakota (Northern States Power) is an investor-owned utility serving 5 counties in North Dakota. Among the 12 North Dakota utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 3rd largest, with about 17% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Northern States Power Co - Minnesota.

Xcel Energy North Dakota commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Xcel Energy North Dakota billed its commercial customers an average of 9.26¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 12.33¢, so it rose 33% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in North Dakota fell 17% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 14%.

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 Xcel Energy North Dakota

In 2025 the average commercial price at Xcel Energy North Dakota was 8.9% below the residential figure and 25% 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 Xcel Energy North Dakota’s commercial rates are set

Xcel Energy North Dakota is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the North Dakota Public Service Commission and published in a tariff, which is a public document. 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 North Dakota, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Xcel Energy North Dakota

EIA counts 13,135 commercial meters at Xcel Energy North Dakota in 2025, and 12,933 of them (98%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 169 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 33 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 Xcel Energy North Dakota, 909 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 6.7% 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 Xcel Energy North Dakota reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing and real-time pricing.

How reliable is Xcel Energy North Dakota’s electric service?

Xcel Energy North Dakota customers went without power for an average of 57 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.46 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 88 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Xcel Energy North Dakota serves

EIA records Xcel Energy North Dakota serving customers in 5 North Dakota counties: Cass, Grand Forks, McHenry, Traill, Ward. 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 North Dakota

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

• Montana-Dakota Utilities (5.60¢)
• Otter Tail Power (7.01¢)

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 Xcel Energy North Dakota’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 North Dakota 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: Xcel Energy North Dakota commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Xcel Energy North Dakota

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Xcel Energy North Dakota?

Xcel Energy North Dakota billed its commercial customers in North Dakota an average of 12.33¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 68% above the North Dakota commercial average of 7.36¢. 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 Xcel Energy North Dakota?

About $747 a month in 2025, on average use of about 6,060 kWh a month. That is Xcel Energy North Dakota’s commercial revenue divided by its 13,481 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Xcel Energy North Dakota’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Xcel Energy North Dakota billed commercial customers rose 33% between 2015 and 2025, from 9.26¢ to 12.33¢ per kWh. The North Dakota commercial average fell 17% over the same period.

How reliable is Xcel Energy North Dakota’s electric service?

Xcel Energy North Dakota customers averaged 57 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Xcel Energy North Dakota use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 12,933 advanced (AMI) meters among Xcel Energy North Dakota’s 13,135 commercial meters in 2025, which is 98%. 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 Xcel Energy North Dakota?

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 Xcel Energy North Dakota’s tariff.