Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative reported 36,631 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,151 kWh a month on average at 12.78 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, Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative ranks 10 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 Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 9 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, Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative reported an average of 51 minutes without power per customer and 0.68 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 74 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative had about 77 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 74 minutes and 0.68 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 51 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. Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative 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 267 residential net-metered systems on the Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 2.4 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Kentucky.

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

By residential customers, Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative ranks 13th of the 43 utilities that report homes in Kentucky, with about 1.8% of the state's homes. Its price of 12.78 cents per kWh is 0.91 cents below the median of 21 other cooperatives in Kentucky (13.70 cents). At $147.19 a month, an average Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative home pays about $42 a year more than the Kentucky average of $143.72, and uses 57 kWh a month more. Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 9 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 267 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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