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Northern States Power Co - Minnesota rate plans

8 residential plans are currently open to new customers. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.

Looking for when the expensive hours are? Northern States Power Co - Minnesota’s peak hours, plan by plan →

What does Northern States Power Co - Minnesota cost at a normal month’s usage?

A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,800 a year on the cheapest of the 8 plans we can price here — Residential Service - Overhead Electric Space Heating (A01) — and $2,186 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.

Annual cost at Northern States Power Co - Minnesota by monthly usage
A month of	Cheapest, a year	On which plan	Priciest
500 kWh	$936	Residential Service - Overhead Electric Space Heating (A01)	$1,129
1,000 kWh	$1,800	Residential Service - Overhead Electric Space Heating (A01)	$2,186
2,000 kWh	$3,528	Residential Service - Overhead Electric Space Heating (A01)	$4,301

The same plan is cheapest at every level of use here, so the answer does not turn on how much you use. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.

How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?

Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan Northern States Power Co - Minnesota files, and the bill lands anywhere between $1,433 and $1,737 a year. That $304 spread is not a difference in electricity — it is the same kilowatt-hours, from the same wires, priced under different rules. Nobody sends you a letter when you are on the wrong side of it.

The plan most households land on by default, Residential Service - Overhead Standard (A01), comes to about $1,620. The cheapest option here, Residential Service - Overhead Electric Space Heating (A01), comes to $1,433 — a gap of about $187 a year for a household that never changed a single habit. Whether you can actually capture that depends on when you use power, which is what the calculator below is for.

4 of these 8 plans price by the hour. Those are the ones where moving laundry, dishes, or car charging into the cheap window changes the bill; on the rest, the clock is irrelevant and only the total matters. Which camp you belong in is the first question worth settling, because it decides whether shifting your day is worth anything at all.

How Northern States Power Co - Minnesota compares with the rest of the country

Northern States Power Co - Minnesota is the only South Dakota utility we can price, so there is no in-state comparison to make. Against the whole country there is: run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 127 utilities we cover, and Northern States Power Co - Minnesota lands 73rd cheapest — in the dearer half — at about $1,620 a year against a national median of $1,566. The range runs from $905 at Entergy Louisiana (Louisiana) to $4,726 at San Diego Gas & Electric (California).

The other two households sit in the same place: a small apartment pays about $861 here against a national median of $901, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $2,212 against $2,067. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 17.1¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.

Inside Northern States Power Co - Minnesota itself, the gap between its cheapest and dearest plan for that house is $304 a year. That is the part of the bill a customer here can act on; the rest is set by which utility the address falls under.

What the filed tariffs say state by state →

Which plan would cost you least?

No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.

Start from a household like yours

Then correct anything below that doesn’t match.

A typical monthly bill

$a month

A bill that size works out to about 815 kWh a month on Residential Service - Overhead Standard. If your bill shows a different number of kWh, switch to and use theirs — it is the more accurate of the two.

What else runs on electricity

Electric carcharged at home

Electric water heaterincluding heat pump

Central air conditioningsummer only

Electric heatheat pump or resistance

That adds up to 9,923 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.

Same usage, different plan

$286a year

That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Residential Service - Overhead Electric Space Heating (A01) — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.

Plan	Per year	Vs best
Residential Service - Overhead Electric Space Heating (A01)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.	$1,451	—
Residential Service - Underground Electric Space Heating (A03)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.	$1,451	+$0
Residential TOD Overhead Electric Space Heating (A02)Peak hits 9am–9pm on weekdays, all year.	$1,520	+$69
Residential TOD Underground Electric Space Heating (A04)Peak hits 9am–9pm on weekdays, all year.	$1,520	+$69
Residential TOD Underground Standard (A04)Peak hits 9am–9pm on weekdays, all year.	$1,662	+$210
Residential Service - Overhead Standard (A01)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.	$1,679	+$228
Residential Service - Underground Standard (A03)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.	$1,679	+$228
Residential TOD Overhead Standard (A02)Peak hits 9am–9pm on weekdays, all year.	$1,737	+$286

An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.

Before you switch anything

Every plan, in detail

Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.