Meade County RECC Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation reported 29,572 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,034 kWh a month on average at 15.26 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, Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation ranks 28 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 Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation 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, Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation reported an average of 129 minutes without power per customer and 1.56 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 83 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 83 minutes and 1.56 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 129 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. Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation 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 178 residential net-metered systems on the Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation grid in 2025, with 1.7 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation is an electric cooperative based in Kentucky.

Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation operates in the MISO 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. Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation is 15th by size and serves about 1.4% of the state's homes. Its price of 15.26 cents per kWh is 1.71 cents above the median of 21 other cooperatives in Kentucky (13.55 cents). At $157.74 a month, an average Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation home pays about $168 a year more than the Kentucky average of $143.72, and uses 60 kWh a month less. Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation lists distribution equipment in 6 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 178 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.0 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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