Jackson Purchase Energy Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

Jackson Purchase Energy reported 23,989 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,214 kWh a month on average at 17.66 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, Jackson Purchase Energy ranks 33 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 Jackson Purchase Energy 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, Jackson Purchase Energy reported an average of 171 minutes without power per customer and 1.85 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 93 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Jackson Purchase Energy had about 43 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 93 minutes and 1.85 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 171 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. Jackson Purchase Energy 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 71 residential net-metered systems on the Jackson Purchase Energy grid in 2025, with 1.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Jackson Purchase Energy is an electric cooperative based in Kentucky.

Jackson Purchase Energy operates in the MISO power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, Jackson Purchase Energy ranks 21st of the 43 utilities that report homes in Kentucky, with about 1.1% of the state's homes. Its price of 17.66 cents per kWh is 4.11 cents above the median of 21 other cooperatives in Kentucky (13.55 cents). Jackson Purchase Energy lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 71 of its residential customers use net metering, or 3.0 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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