Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop in Kentucky: 13.16 ¢ home rates and 40,645 homes

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop is an cooperative utility serving 47,560 customer accounts in Kentucky; 40,645 of them are residential. 29% of its home meters are advanced (AMI): 11,867 of 40,645.

At 1,185 kWh a month a Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop home pays about $156 in energy: 13.16 ¢/kWh, 2.9% above the Kentucky average of 12.79 ¢.

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop: smart meters

Home meters that are AMI: 29%11,867 of 40,645 meters

Metering at Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop: 11,867 AMI and 28,778 AMR meters among 40,645 home meters, 29.2% AMI.

For Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop the 2024 file holds no SAIDI/SAIFI row and no net-metering row, so those rows read "No data" beside 40,645 home accounts; a missing filing says nothing about service quality.

How it compares

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop
Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop, 2024	Home	Business	Bill	SAIDI
Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop	13.16 ¢/kWh	13.47 ¢/kWh	$156at 1,185 kWh	No dataSAIDI
Kentucky average against this companyLowest in this table	-0.37 ¢/kWhcompany 2.9% above	-1.97 ¢/kWhcompany 17.2% above	-$4a month at 1,185 kWh	No data

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Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop: 2025

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop: +5.3% on 2024 for homes, Kentucky +3.5%.

Pennyrile Rural Electric home price, 2025: 13.86 ¢/kWh+5.3% on 2024, early release
Pennyrile Rural Electric against Kentucky, 2025: +1.8 pointsPennyrile Rural Electric +5.3%, Kentucky +3.5%

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop reported 13.86 ¢/kWh for homes in 2025, +5.3% on its 2024 figure of 13.16, while the Kentucky average moved +3.5%.

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop charts

Residential price since 2015: 13.16 ¢ in 2024

11.02 ¢ in 2015, 13.16 ¢ in 2024 (+19.4%).

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop residential price 2015-2024, 2015 to 2024: 10 rows

Year	Pennyrile Rural Electric Coo	Gap to Kentucky residential	Gap to U.S. residential
2015	11.02	+0.78	-1.63
2016	11.13	+0.64	-1.42
2017	11.45	+0.60	-1.44
2018	11.44	+0.84	-1.43
2019	11.73	+0.93	-1.28
2020	11.68	+0.81	-1.47
2021	11.93	+0.43	-1.73
2022	12.96	+0.05	-2.08
2023	12.95	+0.30	-3.05
2024	13.16	+0.37	-3.32

10 rows from EIA retail sales.

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Home accounts 2015-2024: 40,645

38,064 in 2015, 40,645 in 2024 (+6.8%).

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop home accounts by year, 2015 to 2024: 10 rows

Year	Pennyrile Rural Electric Coo
2015	38064
2016	38225
2017	38436
2018	38691
2019	38937
2020	39266
2021	39755
2022	40062
2023	40345
2024	40645

10 rows from EIA retail sales.

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Rates 2024: 13.16 and 13.47 ¢

13.16 and 13.47 ¢ for this company.

¢/kWh

Pennyrile Rural El residential13.16
Kentucky residential12.79
U.S. residential16.48
Pennyrile Rural El commercial13.47
Kentucky commercial11.50
U.S. commercial12.75

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop, Rates 2024: EIA retail sales.

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Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop SAIDI, 2015-2021

243 min in 2015, 163 in 2021.

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop SAIDI by year, 2015 to 2021: 7 rows

Year	Pennyrile Rural Electr, no major events	Pennyrile Rural Electr, all events
2015	243	293
2016	220	395
2017	183	275
2018	216	372
2019	201	514
2020	199	307
2021	163	622

7 rows from EIA-861 survey.

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Analyst note

Energy sold in 2024 was 1,271,752 MWh over 47,560 accounts, homes 45.5%; the typical home used 14,225 kWh.

EIA-861 holds 10 years of home price for Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop, from 11.02 ¢ in 2015 to 13.16 ¢ in 2024 (+19.4%).

Outages and home price of Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop (EIA utility 14724), 2013 to 2024

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop customers lost power for 163 minutes in 2021, down from 199 in 2013 (−18%). Its best year was 2021 (163 min), its worst 2014 (403 min), across 9 filed years. Against a Kentucky median of 113 minutes in 2021, Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop was above the middle.

Corrected for inflation, a Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop home paid 13.51 ¢/kWh in 2024 against 14.92 ¢ in 2013, −9.5%; the bill itself went 10.79 ¢ to 13.16 ¢ (+21.9%). A home using 1,000 kWh a month paid $1,790 for the year at the 2013 real price and $1,621 at the 2024 price. Place on home price: 31st cheapest of 49 in 2013, 23rd of 45 in 2024 among Kentucky utilities with 1,000+ homes.

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop outage minutes a customer, 2013 to 2021: 163 in 2021

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop at 163 min in 2021 and the Kentucky median at 113.

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop home price since 2013: −9.5% after inflation

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop: 13.51 ¢ in 2025 dollars (solid) and 13.16 ¢ as billed (dashed) in 2024.

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop, EIA utility 14724, year by year among Kentucky utilities

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop 2013-2024: 12 rows

Year, Pennyrile Rural El	¢ billed	¢ in 2025 $	Price place, Pennyrile Rura	SAIDI min	SAIFI	SAIDI place, Pennyrile Rura	Kentucky median SAIDI
2013	10.79	14.92	31 of 49	199	1.99	22 of 25	109
2014	11.13	15.13	35 of 49	403	3.46	26 of 27	122
2015	11.02	14.97	35 of 49	243	2.51	23 of 26	117
2016	11.13	14.93	36 of 49	220	2.37	23 of 27	102
2017	11.45	15.04	31 of 49	183	2.06	26 of 29	105
2018	11.44	14.66	30 of 49	216	2.32	23 of 29	119
2019	11.73	14.77	37 of 54	201	2.06	23 of 30	133
2020	11.68	14.53	30 of 46	199	2.22	23 of 30	92
2021	11.93	14.18	28 of 46	163	1.66	22 of 30	113
2022	12.96	14.26	24 of 46	–	–	–	–
2023	12.95	13.68	22 of 46	–	–	–	–
2024	13.16	13.51	23 of 45	–	–	–	–

Pennyrile Rural Electric, EIA utility 14724: EIA-861, CPI-U.

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SAIDI explained, Kentucky real prices.

Facts

Customer accounts: 47,5602.0% of Kentucky total
Residential accounts: 40,6452.0% of Kentucky homes
Commercial accounts: 6,88914.5% of the base
Industrial accounts: 260.05% of the base
Residential rate: 13.16 ¢/kWhplace 13 of 24, +2.9% against the state
Commercial rate: 13.47 ¢/kWh+17.2% against Kentucky
Average residential use: 14,225 kWh/yr1,185 a month
Implied monthly bill: $1561,185 kWh at 13.16 ¢, energy only
Energy sold or delivered: 1,271,752 MWhhomes 45%, business 55%
Residential rate since 2015: +19.4%11.02 to 13.16 ¢/kWh
SAIDI, no major events: No datanone filed for 40,645 homes
Net-metered capacity: No datanone filed for 40,645 homes
Counties listed: 8Kentucky

Data tables

2024 by sector, Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop sector	Accounts	Rate ¢/kWh	Gap to Kentucky ¢/kWh
Residential	40,645	13.16	+0.37
Commercial	6,889	13.47	+1.97

What EIA-861 holds for Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop

Topic, Pennyrile Rural Electric	Status	Detail
Home price and accounts, Pennyrile Rural Electr	10 years	2015 to 2024, 40,645 homes in 2024
Business price, Pennyrile Rural Electr	Filed 2024	13.47 ¢/kWh on 6,889 accounts
SAIDI and SAIFI, Pennyrile Rural Electr	No data for 2024	7 earlier years on file, 2015 to 2021
Net metering, Pennyrile Rural Electr	No data	none filed against 40,645 home accounts
Service-territory counties, Pennyrile Rural Electr	8 counties	in Kentucky
Smart meters (AMI/AMR), Pennyrile Rural Electr	Filed 2024	11,867 of 40,645 home meters AMI
2025 early release, Pennyrile Rural Electr	Filed	13.86 ¢/kWh for homes

Year by year, Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop

Year	Home accounts, Pennyrile Rural Electr	Home ¢	Business ¢	SAIDI min	SAIFI
2015	38,064	11.02	11.51	243	2.51
2016	38,225	11.13	11.85	220	2.37
2017	38,436	11.45	11.99	183	2.06
2018	38,691	11.44	12.18	216	2.32
2019	38,937	11.73	12.34	201	2.06
2020	39,266	11.68	12.17	199	2.22
2021	39,755	11.93	12.33	163	1.66
2022	40,062	12.96	13.38	No data	No data
2023	40,345	12.95	13.24	No data	No data
2024	40,645	13.16	13.47	No data	No data

Peers of Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop in Kentucky, place 13 of 24 on home price

Company near Pennyrile Rural Elec on price	Home ¢	Gap % to Pennyrile Rural Elec	Accounts, Pennyrile Rural Elec = 1
10. Fleming-Mason Energy Coop Inc	13.05	-0.9%	0.55
11. Nolin Rural Electric Coop Corp	13.08	-0.6%	0.81
12. Farmers Rural Electric Coop Corp	13.08	-0.6%	0.57
13. Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop (this company)	13.16	-	1.00
14. Clark Energy Coop Inc	13.25	+0.6%	0.60
15. Taylor County Rural E C C	13.27	+0.8%	0.59
16. City of Owensboro	13.42	+2.0%	0.56

Who buys Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop's electricity

Class, Pennyrile Rural Electr	Accounts	Of Pennyrile Rural Elec accounts	Of MWh	kWh a year per account
Residential	40,645	85.5%	45.5%	14,225
Commercial	6,889	14.5%	25.6%	47,215
Industrial and other	26	0.05%	29.0%	14,166,077

Monthly energy cost by use, Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop

kWh	Share of a 1,185 kWh month	Cost a month at 13.16 ¢	Cost a year
250	21%	$32.91	$395
500	42%	$65.81	$790
750	63%	$98.72	$1,185
1,000	84%	$131.63	$1,580
1,500	127%	$197.44	$2,369
2,000	169%	$263.26	$3,159

Territory of Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop

8 Kentucky counties, region SERC:

Kentucky other states: 8 of 8 counties of Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop drawn

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop: 8 counties listed by EIA-861, Census 2023 outlines.

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County list

Butler
Christian
Grant
Livingston
Logan
Muhlenberg
Todd
Trigg

Questions on Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop

How many customers does Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop serve in Kentucky?

47,560 accounts in 2024: residential 40,645, commercial 6,889, industrial 26.

What is the average residential rate of Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop?

In 2024 homes paid 13.16 cents; against the Kentucky average that is +2.9%.

How reliable is Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop by SAIDI and SAIFI?

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop has no reliability row for its 40,645 homes in EIA-861 2024, so no SAIDI or SAIFI is shown; the Kentucky median reporter is 147 min.

How much solar net metering is on the Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop grid?

Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop files no net-metering row for its 40,645 homes, while Kentucky utilities together report 10,726 installations.

What is the monthly bill at Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop for average use?

1,185 kWh at 13.16 cents comes to about $156, energy only.

How does Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop rank on price within Kentucky?

Rank 13 of 24 in Kentucky on price, +2.9% against the state average; 12 charge less than 13.16 ¢.

What data is missing for Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop?

47,560 accounts sit behind Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop, whose 2024 filing lacks no SAIDI/SAIFI row and no net-metering row; the other 5 rows of the coverage table are on file.

Who buys power from Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop?

Homes take 45.5% of 1,271,752 MWh, commercial accounts 25.6%, industrial and other 29.0%.

What did Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop charge homes in 2025?

13.86 cents per kWh, +5.3% on the 13.16 of 2024 (EIA early release for 2025).

Utilities with a similar home price

Home prices nearest to Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop at 13.16 ¢/kWh in 2024, among companies with a page here, any state.

Hart Electric Member CorpGeorgia, 13.15 ¢/kWh, 0.01 ¢ below
City of New BraunfelsTexas, 13.18 ¢/kWh, 0.02 ¢ above
Rutherford Elec Member CorpNorth Carolina, 13.13 ¢/kWh, 0.03 ¢ below
Colquitt Electric Membership CorpGeorgia, 13.20 ¢/kWh, 0.04 ¢ above

Primary sources for Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop in Kentucky: 13.16 ¢ home rates and 40,645 homes

EIA-861 annual report entry for Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop in Kentucky: 13.16 ¢ home rates and 40,645 homes, customers and sales
EIA-861 form instructions for Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop in Kentucky: 13.16 ¢ home rates and 40,645 homes, how a customer is counted
EIA state profiles for Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop in Kentucky: 13.16 ¢ home rates and 40,645 homes, the state price average