Bowling Green Municipal Utilities

About Bowling Green Municipal Utilities

Bowling Green Municipal Utilities provides electricity for Bowling Green, Kentucky and is a municipally owned entity. Bowling Green Municipal Utilities' average residential electricity rate per kilowatt hour is 11.74 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 7.37% below Kentucky's average rate of 12.67 cents. The company had sales of 840,935 megawatt hours in 2023 via retail sales. The electricity sourced consisted of megawatt hours that they purchased on wholesale channels. They purchased 864,116 megawatt hours on the wholesale market. In 2023, the supplier had revenue of $87,476,000 from retail electricity sales to end users. Their total revenue from electricity related activities was $89,522,900.

Patrons of the provider pay an average residential power bill of $115.56. This is 13.06% less than the state average of $133.75. Electricity generation is not part of the Bowling Green Municipal Utilities business plan, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other companies and then resell to their consumers. The power grid operated by the provider experiences an average of 0.75 outages per consumer each year, with outages lasting on average 48.34 minutes. The nationwide average for other suppliers is 1.44 outages per consumer and about 123.49 minutes per outage.