Kentucky Power Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

Kentucky Power reported 130,322 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,235 kWh a month on average at 15.95 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, Kentucky Power ranks 30 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 Kentucky Power has distribution equipment. That covers 20 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, Kentucky Power reported an average of 376 minutes without power per customer and 2.06 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 183 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Kentucky Power had about 249 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 183 minutes and 2.06 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 376 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. Kentucky Power reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 314 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 339 residential net-metered systems on the Kentucky Power grid in 2025, with 3.2 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.

Kentucky Power is an investor-owned utility based in Kentucky.

Kentucky Power 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. Kentucky Power is 4th by size and serves about 6.2% of the state's homes. Among 3 other investor-owned utilities in Kentucky, the median price is 12.42 cents per kWh, so Kentucky Power at 15.95 cents is 3.53 cents above its peers. At $196.99 a month, an average Kentucky Power home pays about $639 a year more than the Kentucky average of $143.72, and uses 141 kWh a month more. Kentucky Power lists distribution equipment in 20 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 339 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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