Louisville Gas & Electric Co Electricity Rates

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 45 utilities reporting residential rates in Kentucky, Louisville Gas & Electric Co comes 10th of 45. The state's range runs from City of Berea Municipal Utility at 9.04¢ to Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp at 16.07¢, so where a household sits inside Kentucky depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 3 other investor owned utilities reporting in Kentucky, which averaged 13.45¢, Louisville Gas & Electric Co is below its own ownership class within the state (-8.7%).

All figures come from the 2024 release, so no comparison mixes vintages. The state figure is customer-weighted across 45 reporting utilities.

Scale and consumption

Louisville Gas & Electric Co reported 384.9K residential customers, ranking 2nd of 45 utilities in Kentucky by customers served and covering 18.8% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 10,930 kWh per customer per year - near the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $1,342.

Within Kentucky the median reporting utility sells about 12,192 kWh per customer, so Louisville Gas & Electric Co customers use -10.4% against their own state's middle. Consumption close to the state middle means bills here track the price ranking fairly directly.

Every utility reporting in Kentucky

All 45 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Kentucky, largest first, with Louisville Gas & Electric Co marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in Kentucky.

Common questions about Louisville Gas & Electric Co rates

How much does Louisville Gas & Electric Co charge per kWh?

Louisville Gas & Electric Co reported an average residential price of 12.28¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.

Is Louisville Gas & Electric Co expensive compared with the rest of Kentucky?

Its average residential price is close to the Kentucky customer-weighted average of 12.79¢ per kWh, a difference of -4.0%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 45 utilities reporting residential service in Kentucky.

What is the average electricity bill for Louisville Gas & Electric Co customers?

Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 10,930 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,342 a year, or about $112 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.

Who owns Louisville Gas & Electric Co?

EIA classifies Louisville Gas & Electric Co as Investor Owned, a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Nationally, Investor Owned utilities averaged 17.36¢ per kWh in the 2024 release.

What this page does and does not tell you

• An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
• Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology, why energy prices vary and understanding rate structures.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.