Kilowatt Atlas

Electric cooperative

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Blue Grass Energy Cooperative, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

62 thousand

61,870 homes

Average price

12.61 cents

Kentucky average 13.13

Average bill

$156.88

Per month at 1,244 kWh

Price rank

8 of 33

Lowest to highest in Kentucky

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative rates and average bill

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative reported 61,870 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,244 kWh a month on average at 12.61 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 33 Kentucky utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Blue Grass Energy Cooperative ranks 8 from the lowest price.

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative compared with Kentucky and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Blue Grass Energy Cooperative12.611,244$156.88
Kentucky (all utilities)13.131,094$143.72
United States17.23874$150.68

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Blue Grass Energy Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 23 counties in Kentucky. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Kentucky (23 counties)

Anderson, Bourbon, Bracken, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Grant, Harrison, Henry, Jackson, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer, Nelson, Nicholas, Pendleton, Robertson, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Washington, Woodford

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Reliability

For 2025, Blue Grass Energy Cooperative reported an average of 255 minutes without power per customer and 1.61 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 159 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative had about 128 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 159 minutes and 1.61 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 255 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Blue Grass Energy Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 17 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
  • Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 534 residential net-metered systems on the Blue Grass Energy Cooperative grid in 2025, with 4.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Kentucky Public Service Commission.

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Kentucky.

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative compared with Kentucky

Kentucky has 43 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Blue Grass Energy Cooperative is 7th by size and serves about 3.0% of the state's homes. Blue Grass Energy Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 23 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 534 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.6 per 1,000 homes, against 5.6 for Kentucky as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Kentucky with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

Other Kentucky utilities

Utilities in Kentucky close in size to Blue Grass Energy Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Blue Grass Energy CooperativeCooperative61,87012.61
South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative CorporationCooperative65,49413.55
Owen Electric CooperativeCooperative65,06912.59
Warren Rural Electric CooperativeCooperative61,50012.67
Salt River Electric CooperativeCooperative54,00210.94
Jackson Energy CooperativeCooperative49,59014.76

See every one on the electric companies in Kentucky page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Blue Grass Energy Cooperative and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Blue Grass Energy Cooperative?

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 12.61 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,244 kWh a month and an average bill of $156.88 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Kentucky average was 13.13 cents.

How many customers does Blue Grass Energy Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 61,870 residential customers for Blue Grass Energy Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates Blue Grass Energy Cooperative?

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return. See the regulator for Kentucky on the Kentucky state page.

How reliable is Blue Grass Energy Cooperative?

For 2025, Blue Grass Energy Cooperative reported an average of 255 minutes of outage per customer and 1.61 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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