Kentucky · Investor Owned · investor

Louisville Gas & Electric Co Electricity Rates

Average residential price, customers served and derived annual usage from EIA Form 861, 2024 release.

12.28¢
Avg residential price / kWh
384.9K
Residential customers
-4.0%
vs Kentucky average
$1,342
Implied avg annual bill

Among 194 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, Louisville Gas & Electric Co ranks #159 by average cents per kWh and #75 by residential customers. Louisville Gas & Electric Co charged an average of 12.28¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - close to the Kentucky average and far below the Form 861 US customer-weighted average.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count. Louisville Gas & Electric Co is investor owned - a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Its reported average residential price is close to the Kentucky customer-weighted average (-4.0%). Its customers used near the national residential norm at about 10,930 kWh a year each.

  • San Diego Gas & Electric Co 43.63¢ · customers rank #90
  • Florida Power & Light Co 5,236,277 customers · price rank #122

Highest average rate is not the most customers

Residential customers for the average-rate #1 and customers #1 utilities among 194 with 100,000 or more residential customers

residential customers
  • FL size
    5,236,277
  • CA rate
    307,982

What this shows San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey, latest release. Average cents per kWh and customer counts from the same rows; no tariff or bill is implied. As of 2024

EIA Form 861 utility filing desk

Release KY-2024 · Louisville Gas & Electric Co NEAR STATE

Louisville Gas & Electric Co · Form 861 2024 · NEAR STATE

  • RATE 12.28¢/kWh
  • RANK #10/45
  • VS-ST -4.0%
  • VS-US -28.2%
  • CUST 385k
  • BILL $1,342
  • OWN IOU
  • PHOTO AR 0.03¢
  • BOOK 75/194

Nearest Form 861 price peer: Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) (AR) (-0.03¢ gap)

EIA Form 861 residential filing stamps for this utility record. Read with this utility → · Kentucky rates

Louisville Gas & Electric Co in the Form 861 price neighbourhood

Average residential ¢/kWh among this utility and nearest indexable peers

¢/kWh
  • TX
    12
  • AR
    12
  • this util
    12
  • TN
    12
  • LA
    12

What this shows Louisville Gas & Electric Co reports 12.28¢/kWh, corpus customer-rank 75 of 194.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey As of 2024
C70/100

RateWatt cost context

How Louisville Gas & Electric Co compares on reported cost context

A weighted comparison, not a tariff quote, reliability grade, service-quality score, or recommendation. Lower price and lower implied annual bill score better against reporting utilities in Kentucky; the state generation context is shown separately.

Price against state peers
80/100

12.28¢/kWh · median 13.21¢/kWh

Implied annual bill against state peers
89/100

$1,342/yr · median $1,647/yr

State renewable generation context
14/100

7.7% · median 22.8%

Weights: 50% price, 30% implied annual bill, 20% state renewable-generation context. Unreported inputs are excluded and the remaining weights are redistributed. Price and bill use EIA Form 861 (2024); generation context uses EIA state generation data (2025) and is not attributed to this provider.

Rate comparison

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, whose customer-weighted average is 12.74¢, Louisville Gas & Electric Co is close to its own ownership class within the state (-3.6%).

State price distribution

Where Louisville Gas & Electric Co sits among Kentucky utilities

2024 average residential price across the 45 utilities reporting a rate in Kentucky

12.28¢/kWh Top 23% most affordable More affordable than 80% of 44 other utilities

Louisville Gas & Electric Co

average residential price, equal-width bands

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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

Louisville Gas & Electric Co average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
Louisville Gas & Electric Co 12.28¢ -
Kentucky (customer-weighted, 45 utilities) 12.79¢ -4.0%
US Form 861 customer-weighted average (1.5K utilities) 17.11¢ -28.2%
Investor Owned customer-weighted US avg (183 utilities) 18.37¢ -33.1%

Rate against consumption: Kentucky utilities

Each dot is one of the 45 Kentucky utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Louisville Gas & Electric Co is highlighted. In Kentucky the cheapest rate and the smallest implied annual bill happen to belong to the same utility, City of Berea Municipal Utility; across the country they usually do not. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 45 entities by Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) (X) and Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Costly rate, heavy useCheaper rate, heavy useCostly rate, light useCheaper rate, light use 050100150 050100150 Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use)
Each dot is one of the 45 Kentucky utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Louisville Gas & Electric Co is highlighted. In Kentucky the cheapest rate and the smallest implied annual bill happen to belong to the same utility, City of Berea Municipal Utility; across the country they usually do not.

Territory and usage

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 - -10.4% against the Kentucky median of 12,192 kWh , implying a typical annual bill near $1,342.

State peers

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.

Residential utilities in Kentucky, 2024, ranked by customers served
Utility Ownership Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Kentucky Utilities Co Investor Owned 450.7K 11.85¢
Louisville Gas & Electric Co (this page) Investor Owned 384.9K 12.28¢
Duke Energy Kentucky Investor Owned 139.4K 13.44¢
Kentucky Power Co Investor Owned 130.9K 15.07¢
South Kentucky Rural E C C Cooperative 64.9K 12.92¢
Owen Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 64.0K 12.55¢
Warren Rural Elec Coop Corp Cooperative 60.7K 11.98¢
Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp Cooperative 60.6K 12.32¢
Salt River Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 53.5K 10.88¢
Jackson Energy Coop Corp - (KY) Cooperative 49.4K 13.66¢
Kenergy Corp Cooperative 47.3K 15.15¢
Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop Cooperative 40.6K 13.16¢
Nolin Rural Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 35.9K 13.08¢
West Kentucky Rural E C C Cooperative 32.1K 13.46¢
Meade County Rural E C C Cooperative 29.2K 14.27¢
City of Bowling Green - (KY) Municipal 27.2K 11.48¢
Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) Cooperative 26.7K 13.74¢
Clark Energy Coop Inc - (KY) Cooperative 26.2K 13.25¢
Taylor County Rural E C C Cooperative 25.0K 13.27¢
Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp - (KY) Cooperative 24.9K 13.08¢
Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation Cooperative 24.0K 15.64¢
Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc Cooperative 23.7K 13.05¢
City of Owensboro - (KY) Municipal 23.3K 13.42¢
Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. Cooperative 22.5K 12.87¢
Tri-County Elec Member Corp (TN) Cooperative 20.5K 12.52¢
City of Paducah - (KY) Municipal 18.9K 15.55¢
Shelby Energy Coop, Inc - (KY) Cooperative 17.4K 13.21¢
City of Frankfort - (KY) Municipal 17.2K 11.23¢
Licking Valley Rural E C C Cooperative 16.8K 13.83¢
Grayson Rural Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 14.4K 16.07¢
Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp Cooperative 11.6K 13.69¢
Henderson City Utility Comm Municipal 10.3K 10.84¢
City of Hopkinsville Municipal 9.8K 12.53¢
Madisonville Municipal Utils Municipal 6.9K 11.68¢
City of Murray - (KY) Municipal 6.2K 13.27¢
City of Glasgow - (KY) Municipal 5.6K 13.45¢
City of Berea Municipal Utility Municipal 4.7K 9.04¢
City of Franklin - (KY) Municipal 4.6K 12.92¢
City of Mayfield Plant Board Municipal 4.3K 13.37¢
City of Russellville - (KY) Municipal 3.1K 11.99¢
Gibson Electric Members Corp Cooperative 2.5K 13.33¢
City of Benton - (KY) Municipal 1.9K 14.07¢
City of Jellico Municipal 1.8K 13.11¢
City of Fulton - (KY) Municipal 1.2K 13.60¢
City of Hickman Municipal 821 14.49¢

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

Ownership class peers

Investor Owned utilities with similar residential prices

Beyond Kentucky, these indexable investor owned utilities report the closest residential averages to Louisville Gas & Electric Co in the same Form 861 release. Peer sets differ by ownership class and price, not a shared national list.

Same-ownership utilities outside Kentucky nearest in residential price
Utility State Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Cleco Power LLC Louisiana 251.9K 12.33¢
PacifiCorp Utah 947.2K 12.52¢
Southwestern Electric Power Co Texas 156.3K 12.03¢
Evergy Missouri West Missouri 305.6K 12.55¢
Union Electric Co - (MO) Missouri 1.1M 12.56¢

FAQ

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, the customer-weighted average across Investor Owned utilities was 18.37¢ per kWh in the 2024 Form 861 release.

Limitations

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 and comparing utility costs across states .

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

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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Average price, customers and sales are reported by EIA Form 861 (2024). Per-customer annual usage, the implied annual bill, the customer-weighted state average, the Form 861 US customer-weighted average, the ownership-class customer-weighted average, and every percentage difference are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns, never the separate EIA retail-sales statewide series. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.