North Dakota’s delicate electricity price balance faces challenges

North Dakota’s delicate electricity price balance faces challenges

BISMARCK — As an energy exporter blessed with abundant supply, North Dakota consistently ranks among the cheapest states in the country when it comes to residential, commercial and industrial electricity rates. Exploding costs of transmission, the build out and replacement of transmission infrastructure and the increase in energy load have helped push residential electricity prices modestly higher in recent years, however. Average residential pe…