City of Kansas City Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Kansas City reported 62,103 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 803 kWh a month on average at 14.93 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 13 Kansas utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Kansas City ranks 8 from the lowest price.

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.

EIA lists the counties where City of Kansas City has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Kansas. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, City of Kansas City reported an average of 130 minutes without power per customer and 1.24 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 105 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Kansas City sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Kansas figure across its utilities was 96 minutes. One interruption lasting 105 minutes and 1.24 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 130 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.

• Time-of-use pricing. City of Kansas City does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 538 residential net-metered systems on the City of Kansas City grid in 2025, with 3.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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For questions about state consumer protections, see the Kansas Corporation Commission.

City of Kansas City is a municipal utility based in Kansas.

City of Kansas City operates in the SPP power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 17 utilities listed for Kansas, City of Kansas City is the 3rd largest by homes, at roughly 4.7% of the state total. Its price of 14.93 cents per kWh is 1.42 cents above the median of 5 other municipal utilities in Kansas (13.52 cents). City of Kansas City lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 538 of its residential customers use net metering, or 8.7 per 1,000 homes, against 7.8 for Kansas as a whole.

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

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