Duke Energy Kentucky Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Duke Energy Kentucky reported 140,950 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 926 kWh a month on average at 13.86 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, Duke Energy Kentucky ranks 21 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 Duke Energy Kentucky has distribution equipment. That covers 6 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, Duke Energy Kentucky reported an average of 98 minutes without power per customer and 0.73 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 134 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Duke Energy Kentucky had about 29 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 134 minutes and 0.73 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 98 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. Duke Energy Kentucky 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 1,026 residential net-metered systems on the Duke Energy Kentucky grid in 2025, with 7.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Kentucky, that review is done by the Kentucky Public Service Commission.

Duke Energy Kentucky is an investor-owned utility based in Kentucky.

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

Kentucky has 43 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Duke Energy Kentucky is 3rd by size and serves about 6.7% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.86 cents per kWh is 1.44 cents above the median of 3 other investor-owned utilities in Kentucky (12.42 cents). Duke Energy Kentucky lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,026 of its residential customers use net metering, or 7.3 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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