Jefferson County, Kentucky Electricity Rates & Statistics

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On average, residents who call Louisville/Jefferson County metro government home are paying a residential electricity rate of 12.45 cents per kilowatt hour. This is, thankfully, 0.71% lower than Kentucky's average rate of 12.54 cents, which ranks the city 323rd best for average electricity price out of 556 cities in the state. Louisville Gas & Electric sells an estimated 4,092,137.8 megawatt hours in the city a year, more than any other supplier. There has been a 1.64% increase in the use of fossil fuels and other non-renewable fuel sources in the city throughout the previous year.

Emissions in Louisville/Jefferson County metro government average 11,515.63 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person due to electricity use, which ranks them as the 545th highest polluting city out of 556 cities in the state based on emissions per capita. This adds up to total emissions of 7,190,937,693.88 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption, ranking the city highest for total pollution in Kentucky. The city has 3 electricity plants, which is the highest out of any city in the state. In Louisville/Jefferson County metro government, Coal makes up 62.16% of the fuel sources used in electricity production.

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On average, residents who call Jeffersontown home are paying a residential electricity rate of 12.45 cents per kilowatt hour. This is, thankfully, 0.71% lower than Kentucky's average rate of 12.54 cents, which ranks the city 323rd best for average electricity price out of 556 cities in the state. Louisville Gas & Electric is the largest electricity supplier in the city based on total residential customers. Customers in the city are faced with 0.94 power outages per year, with outages lasting around 86.19 minutes on average. The national averages for outages and duration are 1.45 outages at 171.11 minutes each.

Emissions in Jeffersontown average 12,344.32 kilograms of CO2 emissions per person due to electricity use, which ranks them as the 343rd highest polluting city out of 556 cities in the state based on emissions per capita. This adds up to total emissions of 355,516,438.2 kilograms of CO2 emissions from electricity consumption, ranking the city 12th highest for total pollution in Kentucky. The residents of Jeffersontown must import electricity from outside city limits because there are no electricity facilities in the city boundaries.