Cumberland Valley Electric Rates, Bills and Service Area

Cumberland Valley Electric reported 22,582 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,128 kWh a month on average at 13.11 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, Cumberland Valley Electric ranks 14 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Cumberland Valley Electric's states together. A utility with a large territory can have different rates in different places.

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 Cumberland Valley Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in Kentucky, Tennessee. 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, Cumberland Valley Electric reported an average of 437 minutes without power per customer and 2.88 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 152 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Cumberland Valley Electric had about 310 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 152 minutes and 2.88 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 437 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. Cumberland Valley Electric reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 8 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 59 residential net-metered systems on the Cumberland Valley Electric grid in 2025, with 0.5 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Cumberland Valley Electric is an electric cooperative based in Kentucky, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Cumberland Valley Electric operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 43 utilities listed for Kentucky, Cumberland Valley Electric is the 24th largest by homes, at roughly 1.1% of the state total. Its price of 13.11 cents per kWh is 0.59 cents below the median of 21 other cooperatives in Kentucky (13.70 cents). Over a year, the typical Cumberland Valley Electric bill runs about $50 above the state average, with monthly use 34 kWh higher. Cumberland Valley Electric reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Kentucky, for comparisons. 59 of its residential customers use net metering, or 2.6 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.

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