Will My Bill Go Up

North Dakota

Montana-Dakota Utilities

Investor-owned utility (Montana-Dakota Utilities Co), regulated by the North Dakota Public Service Commission. The average North Dakota home pays about $118 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).

1 pending rate case, about $17 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.

$118
average North Dakota home today (EIA, 2024)
$136
if everything pending is approved as asked
+$17
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

1
Pending Base rate case

Montana-Dakota Utilities customers in North Dakota are already paying an interim increase of about 12.90 dollars a month while regulators review the full 14.5 percent request.

+$17a month, est.

How to have a say

Rate cases are decided by the North Dakota Public Service 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.

Guides: how to comment and whether it helps, what "typical bill" means, how to read your bill.

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Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.