Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative reported 40,704 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,243 kWh a month on average at 13.86 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, Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative ranks 22 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 Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 8 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, Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative reported an average of 246 minutes without power per customer and 2.71 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 91 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative had about 118 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Kentucky figure across its utilities was 171 minutes. One interruption lasting 91 minutes and 2.71 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 246 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Pennyrile 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative in 2025. How net metering works.

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

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

By residential customers, Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative ranks 12th of the 43 utilities that report homes in Kentucky, with about 1.9% of the state's homes. Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 8 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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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