Duke Energy Kentucky: 13.44 ¢/kWh for homes, 92 minutes of SAIDI

Duke Energy Kentucky is an investor owned utility serving 154,073 customer accounts in Kentucky; 139,405 of them are residential. Businesses and industry take 63% of the 3,974,760 MWh it sells; homes take 37%.

Duke Energy Kentucky: 889 kWh a month costs roughly $120 in energy at 13.44 ¢/kWh, +5.1% on the Kentucky average of 12.79 ¢.

Businesses and industry take 63% of the 3,974,760 MWh it sells; homes take 37%.

Who buys power from Duke Energy Kentucky

Business share of sales: 63%homes 37% of 3,974,760 MWh

The customer mix of Duke Energy Kentucky is its own: 139,405 home accounts buy 37.4% of 3,974,760 MWh, 14,374 commercial accounts buy 44.5%, and the remaining 18.1% goes to 294 industrial and other accounts. A typical Duke Energy Kentucky home uses 10,669 kWh a year, a typical business account 122,943.

How it compares

Duke Energy Kentucky
Duke Energy Kentucky, 2024	Home	Business	Bill	SAIDI
Duke Energy Kentucky	13.44 ¢/kWh	11.35 ¢/kWh	$120at 889 kWh	92 minSAIDI
Kentucky average against this company, which is 17 of 24 on priceLowest in this table	-0.65 ¢/kWhcompany 5.1% above	+0.15 ¢/kWhcompany 1.3% below	-$6a month at 889 kWh	+56 mincompany 56 below
West Kentucky Rural E C C	13.46 ¢/kWhcompany 0.1% below	14.37 ¢/kWhcompany 21.1% below	$1200 more than company	209 mincompany 117 below

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Duke Energy Kentucky: 2025

Duke Energy Kentucky: +3.1% on 2024 for homes, Kentucky +3.5%.

Duke Energy Kentucky home price, 2025: 13.86 ¢/kWh+3.1% on 2024, early release
Duke Energy Kentucky SAIDI, 2025: 98 min+7% on 2024, early release
Duke Energy Kentucky against Kentucky, 2025: -0.4 pointsDuke Energy Kentucky +3.1%, Kentucky +3.5%, price in Kentucky 13.24 ¢

Duke Energy Kentucky: 13.86 ¢/kWh in the 2025 early release, +3.1% from 13.44 ¢; Kentucky as a whole went +3.5%, so Duke Energy Kentucky kept pace with it by 0.4 points. Its SAIDI is 98 minutes against 92 in 2024.

Carbon context

Duke Energy Kentucky serves 139,405 homes in Kentucky. At 889 kWh a month that is about 700 kg of CO₂, or 8,396 kg a year, at the Kentucky plant rate, state generation and not this utility: Kentucky generation mix.

Duke Energy Kentucky charts

Residential price since 2015: 13.44 ¢ in 2024

8.64 ¢ in 2015, 13.44 ¢ in 2024 (+55.6%); Kentucky 10.24 to 12.79 ¢.

Duke Energy Kentucky residential price 2015-2024, 2015 to 2024: 10 rows

Year	Duke Energy Kentucky	Gap to Kentucky residential	Gap to U.S. residential
2015	8.64	-1.60	-4.01
2016	8.86	-1.63	-3.69
2017	8.64	-2.21	-4.25
2018	9.21	-1.39	-3.66
2019	9.20	-1.60	-3.81
2020	9.18	-1.69	-3.97
2021	10.58	-0.92	-3.08
2022	13.18	+0.27	-1.86
2023	12.15	-0.50	-3.85
2024	13.44	+0.65	-3.04

10 rows from EIA retail sales.

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Duke Energy Kentucky SAIDI, 2015-2024

98 min in 2015, 92 in 2024.

Duke Energy Kentucky SAIDI by year, 2015 to 2024: 10 rows

Year	Duke Energy Kentucky, no major events	Duke Energy Kentucky, all events
2015	98	179
2016	102	181
2017	98	227
2018	82	215
2019	170	197
2020	71	147
2021	64	84
2022	91	300
2023	72	138
2024	92	131

10 rows from EIA-861 survey.

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Reliability: SAIDI 91.5 min

91.5 min, 0.92x the median reporter, rank 306 of 673.

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Company, no major events91.5
Company, with major events130.6

Duke Energy Kentucky, Reliability: EIA-861 survey.

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Analyst note

From 8.64 ¢ in 2015 to 13.44 ¢ in 2024, a move of +55.6%: Duke Energy Kentucky outpaced its state (+24.9%) by 30.7 points, and +25.3 points against the U.S. Duke Energy Kentucky's sharpest move came in 2022, +24.6%. The latest year is the high at 13.44 ¢; the low was 8.64 ¢ (2017). 2024: +10.6% here, +1.1% for the Kentucky average. SAIDI at Duke Energy Kentucky (major events excluded) went from 98 minutes in 2015 to 92 in 2024, -7%, between 64 (2021) and 170 (2019). At 92 minutes in 2024, Duke Energy Kentucky sat -8 from the national SAIDI median, with 8 of 10 years below it. 2022: 300 minutes with major events, 91 without, the widest gap of any year. Duke Energy Kentucky has 16 cheaper and 7 higher-priced Kentucky peers among 24 with 20,000+ homes. Next cheaper, City of Owensboro, bills 13.42 ¢ (-0.02). Next higher-priced, West Kentucky Rural E C C, bills 13.46 ¢ (+0.01).

The rate is 5.1% above Kentucky, while 92 outage minutes (0.92x the median) show no matching reliability edge.

Home accounts at Duke Energy Kentucky went from 122,962 in 2015 to 139,405 in 2024, +13.4%. Business customers paid 0.84 times the home price in 2024 (11.35 against 13.44 ¢); the ratio was 0.88 in 2015. SAIFI went from 0.98 in 2015 to 0.73 in 2024, between 0.56 and 1.31.

Outages and home price of Duke Energy Kentucky (EIA utility 19446), 2013 to 2024

Duke Energy Kentucky customers lost power for 92 minutes in 2024, down from 103 in 2013 (−11%). Its best year was 2021 (64 min), its worst 2019 (170 min), across 12 filed years. Against a Kentucky median of 148 minutes in 2024, Duke Energy Kentucky was below the middle.

Corrected for inflation, a Duke Energy Kentucky home paid 13.80 ¢/kWh in 2024 against 12.06 ¢ in 2013, +14.4%; the bill itself went 8.73 ¢ to 13.44 ¢ (+54.0%). A home using 1,000 kWh a month paid $1,447 for the year at the 2013 real price and $1,656 at the 2024 price. Place on home price: 6th cheapest of 49 in 2013, 31st of 45 in 2024 among Kentucky utilities with 1,000+ homes.

Duke Energy Kentucky outage minutes a customer, 2013 to 2024: 92 in 2024

Duke Energy Kentucky at 92 min in 2024 and the Kentucky median at 148.

Duke Energy Kentucky home price since 2013: +14.4% after inflation

Duke Energy Kentucky: 13.80 ¢ in 2025 dollars (solid) and 13.44 ¢ as billed (dashed) in 2024.

Duke Energy Kentucky, EIA utility 19446, year by year among Kentucky utilities

Duke Energy Kentucky 2013-2024: 12 rows

Year, Duke Energy Kentuc	¢ billed	¢ in 2025 $	Price place, Duke Energy Ke	SAIDI min	SAIFI	SAIDI place, Duke Energy Ke	Kentucky median SAIDI
2013	8.73	12.06	6 of 49	103	0.90	10 of 25	109
2014	9.07	12.33	6 of 49	116	1.02	13 of 27	122
2015	8.64	11.73	5 of 49	98	0.98	9 of 26	117
2016	8.86	11.88	4 of 49	102	0.77	14 of 27	102
2017	8.64	11.34	2 of 49	98	0.80	13 of 29	105
2018	9.21	11.80	6 of 49	82	0.66	6 of 29	119
2019	9.20	11.58	5 of 54	170	1.31	21 of 30	133
2020	9.18	11.42	5 of 46	71	0.59	8 of 30	92
2021	10.58	12.57	7 of 46	64	0.68	6 of 30	113
2022	13.18	14.50	28 of 46	91	0.56	8 of 29	133
2023	12.15	12.84	12 of 46	72	0.57	6 of 29	156
2024	13.44	13.80	31 of 45	92	0.73	8 of 30	148

Duke Energy Kentucky, EIA utility 19446: EIA-861, CPI-U.

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SAIDI explained, Kentucky real prices.

Facts

Customer accounts: 154,0736.4% of Kentucky total
Residential accounts: 139,4056.7% of Kentucky homes
Commercial accounts: 14,3749.3% of the base
Residential rate: 13.44 ¢/kWhplace 17 of 24, +5.1% against the state
Commercial rate: 11.35 ¢/kWhplace 16 of 36, -1.3% against the state
SAIDI, no major events: 91.5 minbetter than 55% of reporters
SAIFI, no major events: 0.730.72x the median
SAIDI with major events: 130.6 min29.9% from event days
Net-metered capacity: 7.4 MW979 installations
Counties served: 6all in Kentucky
Average residential use: 10,669 kWh/yr889 a month
Implied monthly bill: $120-$27 on the U.S. rate, 889 kWh
Residential rate since 2015: +55.6%8.64 to 13.44 ¢/kWh
SAIDI trend: -7%98 min in 2015, 92 in 2024

Data tables

2024 by sector, Duke Energy Kentucky

Duke Energy Kentucky sector	Accounts	Rate ¢/kWh	Gap to Kentucky ¢/kWh
Residential	139,405	13.44	+0.65
Commercial	14,374	11.35	-0.15

Year by year, Duke Energy Kentucky

Year	Home accounts, Duke Energy Kentucky	Home ¢	Business ¢	Ratio	SAIDI	SAIFI
2015	122,962	8.64	7.57	0.88	98	0.98
2016	124,307	8.86	7.70	0.87	102	0.77
2017	125,795	8.64	7.37	0.85	98	0.80
2018	126,987	9.21	8.39	0.91	82	0.66
2019	128,049	9.20	8.85	0.96	170	1.31
2020	130,434	9.18	8.64	0.94	71	0.59
2021	130,738	10.58	9.10	0.86	64	0.68
2022	134,068	13.18	10.93	0.83	91	0.56
2023	136,696	12.15	10.37	0.85	72	0.57
2024	139,405	13.44	11.35	0.84	92	0.73

Peers of Duke Energy Kentucky in Kentucky, place 17 of 24 on home price

Utility near Duke Energy Kentucky on price	SAIDI min, gap to Duke Energy Kentucky	Home ¢, gap to Duke Energy Kentucky	Gap % to Duke Energy Kentucky	Accounts, Duke Energy Kentucky = 1
14. Clark Energy Coop Inc	+177	-0.19	-1.4%	0.18
15. Taylor County Rural E C C	+56	-0.17	-1.3%	0.18
16. City of Owensboro	+22	-0.02	-0.1%	0.17
17. Duke Energy Kentucky (this utility)	92	13.44	-	1.00
18. West Kentucky Rural E C C	+117	+0.01	+0.1%	0.25
19. Jackson Energy Coop Corp	+184	+0.22	+1.6%	0.35
20. Inter County Energy Coop Corp	+25	+0.29	+2.2%	0.18

Who buys Duke Energy Kentucky's electricity

Class at Duke Energy Kentucky	Accounts	Of Duke Energy Kentucky accounts	Of Duke Energy Kentucky MWh sold	kWh a year per Duke Energy Kentucky account
Residential	139,405	90.5%	37.4%	10,669
Commercial	14,374	9.3%	44.5%	122,943
Industrial and other	294	0.19%	18.1%	2,449,898

Duke Energy Kentucky among Duke Energy group

Duke Energy Kentucky and its neighbours on price	SAIDI min, gap to Duke Energy Kentucky	Home ¢, gap to Duke Energy Kentucky	Accounts, Duke Energy Kentucky = 1
1. Duke Energy Ohio Inc (OH)	+11	-2.62	4.93
2. Duke Energy Indiana, LLC (IN)	+21	-0.70	5.90
3. Duke Energy Kentucky (KY, this utility)	92	13.44	1.00
4. Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (NC)	+76	+0.50	14.49
5. Duke Energy Progress (NC)	+50	+2.10	10.23
6. Duke Energy Florida, LLC (FL)	-8	+3.18	13.04

Duke Energy Kentucky: meters, rate options and solar

Measure	Duke Energy Kentucky	Kentucky context	Duke Energy Kentucky detail
Duke Energy Kentucky home meters on AMI	99.7%	Kentucky 81.4%	142,147 of 142,573 meters
Home meters, AMR (drive-by read)	66	Kentucky figure not published	0.0% of meters
Homes with daily digital access	139,405	Kentucky figure not published	100% of the 139,405 home accounts
Time-of-use rate for Duke Energy Kentucky homes	Not on file	9 of 23 Kentucky utilities offer one	597 homes on dynamic pricing, 0.43% of 139,405
Net-metered installations	979	98% residential	6.9 homes per 1,000 accounts, 7.5 kW average

Monthly energy cost by use, Duke Energy Kentucky

kWh	Share of a 889 kWh month	Cost a month at 13.44 ¢	vs U.S.	Cost a year
250	28%	$33.61	-$7.59	$403
500	56%	$67.22	-$15.18	$807
750	84%	$100.82	-$22.78	$1,210
1,000	112%	$134.43	-$30.37	$1,613
1,500	169%	$201.65	-$45.55	$2,420
2,000	225%	$268.86	-$60.74	$3,226

Outage record, Duke Energy Kentucky

Measure, Duke Energy Kentucky	No events	All events	Converted
SAIDI minutes	91.5	130.6	1.53 h
SAIFI interruptions	0.734	0.845	1.36 yr apart
CAIDI minutes	124.7	154.5	2.08 h

Territory of Duke Energy Kentucky

6 Kentucky counties, region RFC:

Kentucky other states: 6 of 6 counties of Duke Energy Kentucky drawn

Duke Energy Kentucky: 6 counties listed by EIA-861, Census 2023 outlines.

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County list

Boone
Campbell
Gallatin
Grant
Kenton
Pendleton

Questions on Duke Energy Kentucky

How many customers does Duke Energy Kentucky serve in Kentucky?

154,073 accounts in 2024: residential 139,405, commercial 14,374, industrial 294.

What is the average residential rate of Duke Energy Kentucky?

In 2024 homes paid 13.44 cents; against the Kentucky average that is +5.1%.

How reliable is Duke Energy Kentucky by SAIDI and SAIFI?

SAIDI 91.5 min and SAIFI 0.73 a year, major events excluded; ratio to the national median 0.92, CAIDI 125 min.

How much solar net metering is on the Duke Energy Kentucky grid?

979 installations with 7.4 MW, of which residential installations number 956.

What is the monthly bill at Duke Energy Kentucky for average use?

889 kWh at 13.44 cents comes to about $120, energy only.

How does Duke Energy Kentucky rank on price within Kentucky?

Rank 17 of 24 in Kentucky on price, +5.1% against the state average; 16 charge less than 13.44 ¢.

What share of Duke Energy Kentucky sales do homes buy?

Homes take 37.4% of 3,974,760 MWh, commercial accounts 44.5%, industrial and other 18.1%; the 14,374 commercial accounts use 122,943 kWh each, 11.5 times a home.

At Duke Energy Kentucky, are smart meters in homes, with a TOU option?

142,147 of 142,573 home meters are AMI, 99.7%. Duke Energy Kentucky reports no home time-of-use rate; 9 of 23 Kentucky filers do.

Has Duke Energy Kentucky moved up the Kentucky price list since 2015?

1st cheapest of 24 in 2015, 17th of 24 in 2024; its price rose 55.6% while Kentucky rose 24.9%.

How does Duke Energy Kentucky compare with 5 similar utilities?

Place 3 of 6 on home price at 13.44 ¢ (Duke Energy group); median 13.69 ¢, cheapest member 10.83 ¢.

Did Duke Energy Kentucky cut or raise its 2025 home price?

13.86 cents per kWh, +3.1% on the 13.44 of 2024 (EIA early release for 2025).

Utilities with a similar home price

Home prices nearest to Duke Energy Kentucky at 13.44 ¢/kWh in 2024, among companies with a page here, any state.

Dixie Electric Power AssnMississippi, 13.44 ¢/kWh, 0.00 ¢ below
Navopache Electric Coop, IncArizona, 13.43 ¢/kWh, 0.01 ¢ below
El Paso Electric CoTexas, 13.46 ¢/kWh, 0.02 ¢ above

Primary sources for Duke Energy Kentucky: 13.44 ¢/kWh for homes, 92 minutes of SAIDI

EIA-861 annual report entry for Duke Energy Kentucky: 13.44 ¢/kWh for homes, 92 minutes of SAIDI, customers and sales
EIA-861 form instructions for Duke Energy Kentucky: 13.44 ¢/kWh for homes, 92 minutes of SAIDI, how a customer is counted
EIA state profiles for Duke Energy Kentucky: 13.44 ¢/kWh for homes, 92 minutes of SAIDI, the state price average