Duke Energy Indiana commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202511.75¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Indiana average−14%state commercial average 13.70¢
• Commercial customers110,631largest of 39 in Indiana
• Average use6,516 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$765a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+34%from 8.80¢ per kWh
• Outages108 mina year per customer · US average 124

Duke Energy Indiana is an investor-owned utility serving 71 counties in Indiana. Among the 39 Indiana utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the largest, with about 29% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Duke Energy Indiana, LLC.

Duke Energy Indiana commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Duke Energy Indiana billed its commercial customers an average of 8.80¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 11.75¢, so it rose 34% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Indiana rose 40% over the same period. The highest year was 2022, at 12.62¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 18%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Duke Energy Indiana

In 2025 the average commercial price at Duke Energy Indiana was 22% below the residential figure and 36% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Duke Energy Indiana’s commercial rates are set

Duke Energy Indiana is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission and published in a tariff, which is a public document. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. There is no competitive supply market for ordinary commercial accounts in Indiana, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Duke Energy Indiana

EIA counts 110,631 commercial meters at Duke Energy Indiana in 2025, and 109,691 of them (99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 20 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 920 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At Duke Energy Indiana, 232 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.2% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Duke Energy Indiana reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing and real-time pricing.

EIA records 545 commercial net-metered generating systems at Duke Energy Indiana in 2025, with 67.8 MW of capacity between them: about 4.9 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Duke Energy Indiana’s electric service?

Duke Energy Indiana customers went without power for an average of 108 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.92 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 267 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Duke Energy Indiana serves

EIA records Duke Energy Indiana serving customers in 71 Indiana counties: Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Dubois, Fayette, Floyd, Fountain, and 53 more. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists MISO as its balancing authority. MISO is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Indiana

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Indiana page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• NIPSCO (19.24¢)
• Indiana Michigan Power (13.03¢)
• AES Indiana (15.57¢)
• CenterPoint Energy Indiana South (16.70¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Duke Energy Indiana’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Indiana page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Duke Energy Indiana commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Duke Energy Indiana

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Duke Energy Indiana?

Duke Energy Indiana billed its commercial customers in Indiana an average of 11.75¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 14% below the Indiana commercial average of 13.70¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Duke Energy Indiana?

About $765 a month in 2025, on average use of about 6,516 kWh a month. That is Duke Energy Indiana’s commercial revenue divided by its 110,631 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Duke Energy Indiana’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Duke Energy Indiana billed commercial customers rose 34% between 2015 and 2025, from 8.80¢ to 11.75¢ per kWh. The Indiana commercial average rose 40% over the same period.

How reliable is Duke Energy Indiana’s electric service?

Duke Energy Indiana customers averaged 108 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Duke Energy Indiana use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 109,691 advanced (AMI) meters among Duke Energy Indiana’s 110,631 commercial meters in 2025, which is 99%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Duke Energy Indiana?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Duke Energy Indiana’s tariff.