Evergy Kansas South commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202511.26¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Kansas average+0.6%state commercial average 11.19¢
• Commercial customers41,1982nd largest of 21 in Kansas
• Average use6,445 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$726a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+17%from 9.61¢ per kWh
• Outages84 mina year per customer · US average 124

Evergy Kansas South is an investor-owned utility serving 24 counties in Kansas. Among the 21 Kansas utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 2nd largest, with about 17% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Evergy Kansas South, Inc.

Evergy Kansas South commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Evergy Kansas South billed its commercial customers an average of 9.61¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 11.26¢, so it rose 17% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Kansas rose 11% over the same period. The highest year was 2022, at 11.57¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it was unchanged.

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 Evergy Kansas South

In 2025 the average commercial price at Evergy Kansas South was 23% below the residential figure and 45% 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 Evergy Kansas South’s commercial rates are set

Evergy Kansas South is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the Kansas Corporation 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 Kansas, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Evergy Kansas South

EIA counts 41,198 commercial meters at Evergy Kansas South in 2025, and 41,100 of them (more than 99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 98 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 Evergy Kansas South, 260 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.6% 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 Evergy Kansas South reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing and critical peak rebate pricing.

EIA records 134 commercial net-metered generating systems at Evergy Kansas South in 2025, with 6.76 MW of capacity between them: about 3.3 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 Evergy Kansas South’s electric service?

Evergy Kansas South customers went without power for an average of 84 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.91 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 244 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Evergy Kansas South serves

EIA records Evergy Kansas South serving customers in 24 Kansas counties: Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Harvey, Kingman, Labette, Linn, Marion, McPherson, Montgomery, and 6 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 the Southwest Power Pool as its balancing authority. SPP is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Kansas

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

• Evergy Kansas Central (11.09¢)
• Evergy Metro (10.67¢)
• Midwest Energy (11.16¢)
• Wheatland Electric Cooperative (11.88¢)
• Pioneer Electric Cooperative (9.48¢)

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 Evergy Kansas South’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 Kansas 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: Evergy Kansas South commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Evergy Kansas South

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Evergy Kansas South?

Evergy Kansas South billed its commercial customers in Kansas an average of 11.26¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 0.6% above the Kansas commercial average of 11.19¢. 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 Evergy Kansas South?

About $726 a month in 2025, on average use of about 6,445 kWh a month. That is Evergy Kansas South’s commercial revenue divided by its 41,198 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Evergy Kansas South’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Evergy Kansas South billed commercial customers rose 17% between 2015 and 2025, from 9.61¢ to 11.26¢ per kWh. The Kansas commercial average rose 11% over the same period.

How reliable is Evergy Kansas South’s electric service?

Evergy Kansas South customers averaged 84 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Evergy Kansas South use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 41,100 advanced (AMI) meters among Evergy Kansas South’s 41,198 commercial meters in 2025, which is more than 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 Evergy Kansas South?

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 Evergy Kansas South’s tariff.