City of Owensboro Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Owensboro reported 23,316 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 800 kWh a month on average at 13.40 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, City of Owensboro ranks 17 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 Owensboro has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties in Kentucky. 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 Owensboro reported an average of 87 minutes without power per customer and 1.14 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 77 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Owensboro had about 40 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 77 minutes and 1.14 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 87 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 Owensboro 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 35 residential net-metered systems on the City of Owensboro grid in 2025, with 0.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Owensboro is a municipal utility based in Kentucky.

Kentucky has 43 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Owensboro is 23rd by size and serves about 1.1% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.40 cents per kWh is about the same as the median of 15 other municipal utilities in Kentucky (13.42 cents). At $107.23 a month, an average City of Owensboro home pays about $438 a year less than the Kentucky average of $143.72, and uses 294 kWh a month less. City of Owensboro lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 35 of its residential customers use net metering, or 1.5 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.

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