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This pending case could raise a typical Black Hills Energy South Dakota bill by about 45 dollars a month; nothing is decided yet.
+$45a month
Black Hills Energy (Black Hills Power)
Investor-owned utility (Black Hills Power, Inc. d/b/a), regulated by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission. The average South Dakota home pays about $128 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).
2 pending rate cases, about $78 a month more if approved
That is the ask, not the outcome: commissions usually approve less than the utility requests. Each case below links its docket and sources.
$128
average South Dakota home today (EIA, 2024)
$206
if everything pending is approved as asked
+$78
a month
The ask, not the outcome. Your own bill scales with your usage; a home using twice the state average would see roughly twice the change.
Pending
2
This pending case would raise Black Hills Energy bills in northeastern Wyoming by about 33 dollars a month; it has not been decided.
+$33a month
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Rate cases are decided by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, which takes written comments on every docket and holds public hearings on the big ones. Comment deadlines and hearing dates are on each case page above when we have them.
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Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.