Kentucky Utilities (KU) commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202511.63¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Kentucky average−1.0%state commercial average 11.75¢
• Commercial customers94,996largest of 42 in Kentucky
• Average use4,986 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$580a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+27%from 9.17¢ per kWh
• Outages89 mina year per customer · US average 124

Kentucky Utilities (KU) is an investor-owned utility serving 77 counties in Kentucky. Among the 42 Kentucky 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 Kentucky Utilities Co.

Kentucky Utilities commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Kentucky Utilities billed its commercial customers an average of 9.17¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 11.63¢, so it rose 27% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Kentucky rose 24% over the same period. The highest year was 2022, at 12.08¢. 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 Kentucky Utilities

In 2025 the average commercial price at Kentucky Utilities was 2.3% 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 Utilities’ commercial rates are set

Kentucky Utilities 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 Utilities

EIA counts 92,742 commercial meters at Kentucky Utilities in 2025, and 89,960 of them (97%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 44 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 2,738 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 Kentucky Utilities, 4,626 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 4.9% 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 Utilities reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing, critical peak pricing and critical peak rebate pricing.

EIA records 285 commercial net-metered generating systems at Kentucky Utilities in 2025, with 5.60 MW of capacity between them: about 3.0 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 Utilities’ electric service?

Kentucky Utilities customers went without power for an average of 89 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.85 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 197 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Kentucky Utilities serves

EIA records Kentucky Utilities serving customers in 77 Kentucky counties: Adair, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Bullitt, Caldwell, Campbell, Carlisle, Carroll, Casey, Christian, Clark, Clay, and 59 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 LG&E and KU as its balancing authority, the body that keeps supply and demand matched minute by minute across the 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.

• LG&E (11.46¢)
• Kentucky Power (13.83¢)
• 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 Utilities’ 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 Utilities commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Kentucky Utilities

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Kentucky Utilities?

Kentucky Utilities billed its commercial customers in Kentucky an average of 11.63¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 1.0% below 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 Utilities?

About $580 a month in 2025, on average use of about 4,986 kWh a month. That is Kentucky Utilities’ commercial revenue divided by its 94,996 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Kentucky Utilities’ commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Kentucky Utilities billed commercial customers rose 27% between 2015 and 2025, from 9.17¢ to 11.63¢ per kWh. The Kentucky commercial average rose 24% over the same period.

How reliable is Kentucky Utilities’ electric service?

Kentucky Utilities customers averaged 89 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Kentucky Utilities use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 89,960 advanced (AMI) meters among Kentucky Utilities’ 92,742 commercial meters in 2025, which is 97%. 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 Kentucky Utilities?

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 Utilities’ tariff.