Owen Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Owen Electric Cooperative reported 65,069 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,149 kWh a month on average at 12.59 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, Owen Electric Cooperative ranks 7 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 Owen 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, Owen Electric Cooperative reported an average of 103 minutes without power per customer and 1.06 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 98 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Owen Electric Cooperative had about 24 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 98 minutes and 1.06 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 103 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. Owen Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 15 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 462 residential net-metered systems on the Owen Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 3.7 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Owen Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Kentucky.

Kentucky has 43 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Owen Electric Cooperative is 6th by size and serves about 3.1% of the state's homes. Its price of 12.59 cents per kWh is 1.10 cents below the median of 21 other cooperatives in Kentucky (13.70 cents). The typical Owen Electric Cooperative bill of $144.68 a month is within about $12 a year of the Kentucky average, so a household here pays close to what a typical household in the state pays. Owen Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 9 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 462 of its residential customers use net metering, or 7.1 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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