How many electric cooperatives are in Kansas?

28 electric cooperatives reported bundled retail electricity sales to customers in Kansas in 2024, according to EIA. The largest is Midwest Energy Inc, with 50,304 customers.

How many municipal and public power utilities are in Kansas?

117 — 117 municipal utilities — reported bundled retail sales in Kansas in 2024. The largest is City of Kansas City, with 68,637 customers.

How do public power utilities and co-ops in Kansas buy?

Municipal utilities and public utility districts are local government entities, so they generally follow Kansas's public procurement laws, with purchases approved by a city council or utility board. Electric co-ops are private, member-owned nonprofits that set their own purchasing policies, though projects financed through USDA's Rural Utilities Service follow its rules. See how utilities buy.

Where does this data come from?

From the U.S. Energy Information Administration's table "2024 Utility Bundled Retail Sales – Total" (Table 10), based on forms EIA-861 and EIA-861S. It counts customers who buy both electricity and delivery from the utility.

Kansas Public Power & Electric Co-ops: Full List

Key takeaways

145 community-owned utilities: 117 municipal utilities and 28 electric cooperatives reported bundled retail sales in Kansas in 2024.
Together they served 555,918 of the state's 1,586,226 bundled retail customers (35%); 4 investor-owned utilities served most of the rest.
The largest public power utility is City of Kansas City, with 68,637 customers.
The largest electric co-op is Midwest Energy Inc, with 50,304 customers.

Every public power utility and co-op in Kansas

Ranked by bundled retail customers in 2024, with retail sales in megawatt-hours and average price in cents per kilowatt-hour. Names are as EIA abbreviates them. Filter by type or search.

Showing all 145 utilities

#	Utility	Type	Customers	Sales, MWh	Avg. price
1	City of Kansas City	Municipal	68,637	2,153,199	12.40¢
2	Midwest Energy Inc	Cooperative	50,304	1,533,412	9.26¢
3	Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	32,309	787,763	11.74¢
4	Prairie Land Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	24,541	558,841	10.79¢
5	Victory Electric Coop Assn Inc	Cooperative	20,432	828,835	8.60¢
6	FreeState Electric Coop	Cooperative	18,992	282,025	15.65¢
7	Southern Pioneer Electric Company	Cooperative	17,105	751,854	8.99¢
8	Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	16,350	968,517	7.30¢
9	4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc.	Cooperative	12,551	154,484	18.50¢
10	Western Coop Electric Assn Inc	Cooperative	12,076	340,886	10.21¢
11	City of Garden City	Municipal	11,974	314,406	11.56¢
12	Rolling Hills Electric Coop	Cooperative	11,449	211,632	14.59¢
13	Heartland Rural Elec Coop, Inc	Cooperative	11,393	189,982	13.82¢
14	City of Gardner	Municipal	10,023	161,982	9.82¢
15	City of McPherson	Municipal	8,988	1,146,361	5.77¢
16	DS&O Electric Cooperative, Inc.	Cooperative	8,517	134,374	16.20¢
17	Sedgwick County El Coop Assn Inc	Cooperative	8,110	153,886	12.70¢
18	Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc	Cooperative	7,783	157,373	15.30¢
19	Bluestem Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	7,580	107,750	17.09¢
20	City of Winfield	Municipal	7,551	218,409	10.54¢
21	Flint Hills Rural E C A, Inc	Cooperative	6,657	82,736	16.36¢
22	City of Ottawa	Municipal	6,393	141,727	11.52¢
23	CMS Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	5,885	202,658	12.30¢
24	City of Coffeyville	Municipal	5,740	797,443	6.79¢
25	Lane-Scott Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	5,730	167,489	10.66¢
26	City of Chanute	Municipal	5,567	279,157	8.99¢
27	Ark Valley Elec Coop Assn, Inc	Cooperative	5,266	99,706	13.77¢
28	Caney Valley El Coop Assn, Inc	Cooperative	5,192	59,743	16.18¢
29	Sumner-Cowley Elec Coop, Inc	Cooperative	4,547	81,105	15.77¢
30	City of Wellington	Municipal	4,466	87,556	14.16¢
31	City of Pratt	Municipal	4,455	74,680	16.84¢
32	Ninnescah Rural E C A Inc	Cooperative	4,215	107,061	12.75¢
33	City of Augusta	Municipal	4,198	64,355	16.36¢
34	City of Iola	Municipal	3,696	90,420	10.38¢
35	Nemaha-Marshall E C A, Inc	Cooperative	3,564	48,736	17.35¢
36	City of Russell	Municipal	3,309	116,874	9.30¢
37	Brown-Atchison E C A Inc	Cooperative	3,291	47,616	14.77¢
38	City of Colby	Municipal	3,185	56,436	10.86¢
39	City of Mulvane	Municipal	2,927	43,432	13.75¢
40	Twin Valley Electric Coop Inc	Cooperative	2,885	33,153	19.36¢
41	City of Clay Center	Municipal	2,780	43,653	14.04¢
42	City of Goodland	Municipal	2,697	39,039	13.70¢
43	City of Eudora	Municipal	2,679	40,442	12.42¢
44	City of Holton	Municipal	2,507	47,081	7.56¢
45	City of Larned	Municipal	2,487	36,360	13.04¢
46	City of Wamego	Municipal	2,413	45,459	15.40¢
47	City of Beloit	Municipal	2,303	40,479	10.80¢
48	City of Garnett	Municipal	2,286	27,457	15.33¢
49	City of Hugoton	Municipal	2,224	35,089	10.35¢
50	City of Osawatomie	Municipal	2,070	35,155	11.88¢
51	City of Baldwin City	Municipal	2,055	33,911	14.11¢
52	City of Kingman	Municipal	1,936	36,803	14.84¢
53	City of Sabetha	Municipal	1,905	45,380	10.01¢
54	City of Anthony	Municipal	1,871	28,080	12.91¢
55	City of Lindsborg	Municipal	1,776	27,163	14.10¢
56	City of Norton	Municipal	1,776	24,577	11.59¢
57	City of Osage City	Municipal	1,746	33,469	11.31¢
58	City of Burlington	Municipal	1,696	30,604	11.88¢
59	Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK)	Cooperative	1,608	17,264	16.41¢
60	Doniphan Elec Coop Assn, Inc	Cooperative	1,592	18,166	17.69¢
61	City of Girard	Municipal	1,554	31,272	13.12¢
62	City of Hoisington	Municipal	1,549	22,563	13.44¢
63	City of Neodesha	Municipal	1,544	36,780	11.23¢
64	City of Hillsboro	Municipal	1,499	22,870	14.68¢
65	City of Fredonia	Municipal	1,464	27,043	14.32¢
66	City of Belleville	Municipal	1,407	24,509	11.85¢
67	City of Herington	Municipal	1,355	15,416	17.53¢
68	City of Oberlin	Municipal	1,324	13,960	14.31¢
69	City of Ellinwood	Municipal	1,289	15,693	18.19¢
70	City of Sterling	Municipal	1,238	23,569	11.55¢
71	City of Marion	Municipal	1,219	16,857	13.64¢
72	City of Horton	Municipal	1,208	11,222	14.03¢
73	City of Seneca	Municipal	1,195	34,944	9.45¢
74	City of Minneapolis	Municipal	1,152	17,258	14.92¢
75	City of St Marys	Municipal	1,128	18,427	12.85¢
76	City of Cimarron	Municipal	1,108	14,674	11.85¢
77	City of Moundridge	Municipal	1,075	33,804	10.19¢
78	City of Lakin	Municipal	1,037	16,417	10.38¢
79	City of St Francis	Municipal	1,023	11,013	13.27¢
80	City of Hill City	Municipal	985	13,363	14.30¢
81	City of Meade	Municipal	942	14,504	12.20¢
82	City of Stockton	Municipal	934	10,920	14.99¢
83	Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	930	20,797	10.76¢
84	City of La Crosse	Municipal	920	10,983	13.27¢
85	City of Osborne	Municipal	902	13,230	15.87¢
86	City of Kiowa	Municipal	896	12,106	10.14¢
87	City of Lincoln Center	Municipal	889	10,388	17.68¢
88	City of Dighton	Municipal	877	8,441	15.67¢
89	City of Johnson	Municipal	844	15,221	12.46¢
90	City of St. John	Municipal	805	9,672	10.88¢
91	City of Arma	Municipal	781	7,019	22.78¢
92	City of Washington	Municipal	763	10,707	13.82¢
93	City of Stafford	Municipal	703	8,071	13.88¢
94	City of Ashland	Municipal	693	12,835	9.89¢
95	City of Chapman	Municipal	676	11,031	12.21¢
96	City of Burlingame	Municipal	675	6,707	10.18¢
97	City of Pomona	Municipal	665	7,408	11.23¢
98	City of Haven	Municipal	657	10,668	12.81¢
99	City of Jetmore	Municipal	640	7,673	13.30¢
100	City of Greensburg	Municipal	637	12,748	11.62¢
101	City of Erie	Municipal	633	9,267	15.83¢
102	City of Chetopa	Municipal	617	8,674	14.61¢
103	City of Wathena	Municipal	617	7,703	14.93¢
104	City of Sharon Springs	Municipal	591	7,684	14.39¢
105	City of Mankato	Municipal	589	7,707	11.10¢
106	City of Elwood	Municipal	585	7,588	12.50¢
107	City of Troy	Municipal	582	6,215	16.88¢
108	City of Oxford	Municipal	579	7,119	15.03¢
109	City of Montezuma	Municipal	577	9,786	12.21¢
110	City of Altamont	Municipal	567	7,731	13.09¢
111	City of Alma	Municipal	560	13,884	12.10¢
112	City of Galva	Municipal	475	5,552	11.96¢
113	City of Attica	Municipal	457	5,031	14.70¢
114	City of Mount Hope	Municipal	442	4,904	17.11¢
115	City of Udall	Municipal	428	4,894	16.98¢
116	City of Cawker City	Municipal	424	4,492	10.65¢
117	City of Enterprise	Municipal	409	4,332	14.36¢
118	City of Glen Elder	Municipal	376	3,945	13.59¢
119	City of Glasco	Municipal	370	3,001	16.06¢
120	City of Waterville	Municipal	367	4,055	15.61¢
121	City of Lucas	Municipal	350	5,333	13.17¢
122	City of Scranton	Municipal	324	3,731	15.17¢
123	City of Holyrood	Municipal	319	2,884	15.60¢
124	City of La Harpe	Municipal	295	2,464	12.15¢
125	City of Centralia	Municipal	278	3,886	11.78¢
126	City of Moran	Municipal	268	4,243	12.56¢
127	City of Axtell	Municipal	231	2,998	11.27¢
128	City of Mulberry	Municipal	211	2,030	23.10¢
129	City of Toronto	Municipal	197	1,682	13.85¢
130	City of Arcadia	Municipal	183	1,275	15.35¢
131	City of Robinson	Municipal	157	967	17.56¢
132	City of Herndon	Municipal	150	1,178	13.25¢
133	City of Morrill	Municipal	148	1,247	17.38¢
134	City of Luray	Municipal	145	1,238	14.78¢
135	City of Blue Mound	Municipal	144	1,892	10.73¢
136	City of Bronson	Municipal	131	1,845	13.55¢
137	City of Prescott	Municipal	122	1,086	18.52¢
138	City of Summerfield	Municipal	116	1,017	10.19¢
139	City of Vermillion	Municipal	100	612	17.55¢
140	City of Muscotah	Municipal	97	787	22.36¢
141	City of Iuka	Municipal	94	1,494	16.27¢
142	City of Isabel	Municipal	69	515	12.00¢
143	City of Savonburg	Municipal	52	490	12.65¢
144	City of Elsmore	Municipal	47	352	17.05¢
145	City of Radium	Municipal	23	191	14.66¢

Public power vs. co-ops in Kansas

Public power utilities — municipal utilities, public utility districts and state-owned utilities — are owned by the communities they serve and governed by a city council or elected board. They buy much like local governments: through public bids, board approvals and published budgets.
Electric cooperatives are private, not-for-profit utilities owned by their members, who elect the board. Most buy power from a generation and transmission (G&T) co-op and make purchasing decisions through their own policies, often faster than public agencies.

Both publish their plans: watch board and council agendas, budgets, capital improvement plans and rate filings. Our utility funding tracker and rate case & IRP tracker show where the money is coming from.

Selling to Kansas utilities

Start with the right person. Line, engineering, metering, IT and member-services managers usually define the need; the general manager or CEO and the board approve large purchases.
Use the networks. State public power and cooperative associations, joint action agencies and G&T co-ops shape purchasing and share vendor experiences.
Expect small teams. Many of the utilities on this list have only a handful of staff, so phone outreach and a clear reason to talk matter.

Read our guide to how public power, co-ops and water utilities buy, or see the largest public power utilities and largest electric co-ops nationally.

About this data

Source. EIA's "2024 Utility Bundled Retail Sales – Total" (Table 10), from forms EIA-861 and EIA-861S. Average price is EIA's revenue divided by sales.
Bundled customers only. The table counts customers who buy both energy and delivery from the utility, so it excludes distribution-only utilities and customers who buy energy from another supplier in retail-choice areas.
Community-owned utilities only. This page lists municipal, public utility district, state-owned and cooperative utilities. Investor-owned and federal utilities are left out.

Sources

U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2024 Utility Bundled Retail Sales – Total (Table 10): eia.gov

Public power utilities and electric co-ops in Kansas.