Kentucky Power commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202513.83¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Kentucky average+18%state commercial average 11.75¢
• Commercial customers30,5983rd largest of 42 in Kentucky
• Average use3,893 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$538a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+29%from 10.74¢ per kWh
• Outages376 mina year per customer · US average 124

Kentucky Power is an investor-owned utility serving 20 counties in Kentucky. Among the 42 Kentucky utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 3rd largest, with about 9.3% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Kentucky Power Co.

Kentucky Power commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Kentucky Power billed its commercial customers an average of 10.74¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 13.83¢, so it rose 29% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Kentucky rose 24% over the same period. The highest year was 2022, at 14.64¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 3.7%.

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 Kentucky Power

In 2025 the average commercial price at Kentucky Power was 13% below the residential figure and 64% 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 Kentucky Power’s commercial rates are set

Kentucky Power is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the Kentucky Public Service 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 Kentucky, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Kentucky Power

EIA counts 29,778 commercial meters at Kentucky Power in 2025 and reports no advanced (AMI) meters among them. Of those, 29,507 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 271 are standard meters. Without an advanced meter a business generally has no interval data, so its peak demand is read from the meter’s own register.

At Kentucky Power, 683 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 2.2% 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 Kentucky Power reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.

EIA records 51 commercial net-metered generating systems at Kentucky Power in 2025, with 1.40 MW of capacity between them: about 1.7 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 Kentucky Power’s electric service?

Kentucky Power customers went without power for an average of 376 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 2.06 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 911 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Kentucky Power serves

EIA records Kentucky Power serving customers in 20 Kentucky counties: Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence, Leslie, Letcher, Lewis, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, Owsley, Perry, and 2 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 PJM as its balancing authority. PJM is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Kentucky

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

• Kentucky Utilities (11.63¢)
• LG&E (11.46¢)
• Warren RECC (13.87¢)
• Duke Energy Kentucky (11.68¢)
• Kenergy (14.67¢)

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 Kentucky Power’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 Kentucky 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: Kentucky Power commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Kentucky Power

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Kentucky Power?

Kentucky Power billed its commercial customers in Kentucky an average of 13.83¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 18% above the Kentucky commercial average of 11.75¢. 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 Kentucky Power?

About $538 a month in 2025, on average use of about 3,893 kWh a month. That is Kentucky Power’s commercial revenue divided by its 30,598 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Kentucky Power’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Kentucky Power billed commercial customers rose 29% between 2015 and 2025, from 10.74¢ to 13.83¢ per kWh. The Kentucky commercial average rose 24% over the same period.

How reliable is Kentucky Power’s electric service?

Kentucky Power customers averaged 376 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Is this the rate my business will pay Kentucky Power?

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 Kentucky Power’s tariff.