Black Hills Corporation (BKH)
Electric and gas utilities, large corporate segment. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 11, 2026. Ranked 1 of the 42 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
40%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
54%
Employees, annual report
2,795
Leading staffing pattern
Management of Companies and Enterprises
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now40%
- End of 202751%
- End of 202854%
- End of 203055%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 41%
- Becomes checking a model's work 50%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing counts 2,795 employees at December 31, 2025 by segment, so the 1,184 in Gas Utilities are read at natural gas distribution, the 421 in Electric Utilities at electric power and the 1,190 in Corporate and Other at management of companies.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 40% now, 51% at the end of 2027, 54% at the end of 2028, 55% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 55% desk work, 19% people work and 27% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 41% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 50% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
2,795 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes electric and gas utilities in Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska and nothing abroad; recorded as 1 without a stated figure, flagged.
The filing: “Total Employees, Number of Employees as of December 31, 2025: Electric Utilities 421, Gas Utilities 1,184, Corporate and Other 1,190, Total 2,795.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas Distribution | 42% | The filing counts 1,184 employees in its Gas Utilities (a), read at natural gas distribution. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 43% | The filing counts 1,190 employees in Corporate and Other (a), a stated corporate and shared services count read at management of companies under rule 6, as other utilities' service company employees are. |
| Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution | 15% | The filing counts 421 employees in its Electric Utilities (a), read at electric power generation, transmission and distribution. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 2,795 employees at December 31, 2025, down from 2,841: 421 in Electric Utilities, 1,184 in Gas Utilities and 1,190 in Corporate and Other; 702 covered by collective bargaining agreements with IBEW and CWA locals, 25% of the workforce; women 24% of employees; turnover 12%; about 18% eligible for retirement.
What the filing says about AI
5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in its cybersecurity risk factors: artificial intelligence, including generative AI, may be used to facilitate cyber threats, its own and its vendors' use of generative AI may bring data privacy, legal and security risks, and adversaries use AI to exploit utility infrastructure vulnerabilities.
- “FORM 10-K SUMMARY 118 SIGNATURES 119 3 Table of Contents GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS The following terms and abbreviations appear in the text of this report and have the definitions described below: AC Alternating Current AFUDC Allowance for Funds Used During Construction AI Artificial Intelligence AOCI Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) APSC Arkansas Public Service Commissio...”
- “Additionally, artificial intelligence, including generative artificial intelligence, may be used to facilitate or perpetrate these cybersecurity threats, and our use of generative artificial intelligence (and use by our vendors and agents) may subject us to data privacy, legal, and security risks.”
- “Recent incidents in the utility sector underscore the disruptive potential of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, with adversaries leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence to exploit vulnerabilities and evade detection.”
- “In July 2024, Wyoming Electric announced it would partner with Meta to provide power for its AI data center.”
- “Meta's new AI data center plans to transition from construction power to permanent service later in the first quarter of 2026.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20244median 4
- Fiscal 20255median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2,795 | 2026-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,841 | 2025-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,874 | 2024-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,982 | 2023-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,884 | 2022-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 3,011 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2,944 | 2020-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,863 | 2019-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 2,744 | 2018-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,834 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 2,003 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,021 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 1,948 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 1,925 | 2013-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,030 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,124 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,171 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 2,122 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 998 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 819 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 803 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 926 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 872 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 840 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 785 | 2002-03-26 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 35 | 2001-03-19 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The Corporate and Other segment holds the shared services staff who serve both utilities and is read at management of companies as a stated corporate count; it is the largest segment (rule 6).
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. operations, without stating it.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-046028, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Black Hills Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 40% now and 54% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Black Hills Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Black Hills Corporation employ?
- 2,795 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Black Hills Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Management of Companies and Enterprises; by those patterns the work is about 55% desk work, 19% people work and 27% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Black Hills Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 5 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 4 and 5 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 9, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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