Kingsport Power Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Kingsport Power reported 43,364 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,290 kWh a month on average at 12.28 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 60 Tennessee utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Kingsport Power ranks 8 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 Kingsport Power has distribution equipment. That covers 3 counties in 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, Kingsport Power reported an average of 158 minutes without power per customer and 1.04 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.

Kingsport Power had about 31 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Tennessee figure across its utilities was 147 minutes. One interruption lasting 152 minutes and 1.04 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 158 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. Kingsport Power reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 41 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 97 residential net-metered systems on the Kingsport Power grid in 2025, with 0.7 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 Tennessee, that review is done by the Tennessee Public Utility Commission.

Kingsport Power is an investor-owned utility based in Tennessee.

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

Tennessee has 80 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Kingsport Power is 16th by size and serves about 1.4% of the state's homes. Tennessee has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Kingsport Power with its type, so the state average of 13.22 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $158.45 a month, an average Kingsport Power home pays about $29 a year more than the Tennessee average of $156.03, and uses 110 kWh a month more. Kingsport Power lists distribution equipment in 3 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 97 of its residential customers use net metering, or 2.2 per 1,000 homes, against 0.0 for Tennessee as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Tennessee with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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