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. They currently provide electricity to residential, commercial and industrial customer accounts, with a total of 24,644 residential customers, 5,400 commercial customers and 4 industrial customers signed on for their services. The average residential electricity price for Bowling Green Municipal Utilities is roughly 12.33 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 23.96% below the nationwide average rate of 16.22 cents. This makes the provider 810th lowest for average electricity price out of 2885 providers in the nation. About 840,935 megawatt hours were sold by the supplier to retail customers in 2023. The electricity sourced by the supplier primarily came from megawatt hours that they acquired by way of wholesale channels. They purchased 864,116 megawatt hours on the wholesale market. The revenue for Bowling Green Municipal Utilities for 2023 from electricity sales was $89,522,900, with 97.71% coming from retail sales to end users.

Patrons of the provider pay an average residential power bill of $126.14. This is 9.94% less than the state average of $140.39. 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.