West Kentucky Rural Electric

About West Kentucky Rural Electric

West Kentucky Rural Electric serves electricity to 5 counties in Kentucky including counties like Calloway County, Graves County, Marshall County, Carlisle County, and Hickman County. The entity is an electric cooperative. At the time of the most recent government reports, the provider had a total of 39,163 electricity customers signed on for their services. This total is made up of 78.90% residential customer accounts, 21.09% commercial customer accounts and 0.01% industrial customers. On average, West Kentucky Rural Electric charges their customers a residential electricity price of 13.30 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 14.91% below the nationwide average price of 15.64 cents. The company sold 839,804 megawatt hours through retail sales in 2022. The electricity sourced by West Kentucky Rural Electric is made up primarily of megawatt hours they acquired via wholesale channels. This category makes up 100.00% of all electricity sourced. The revenue for the company for 2022 from electricity sales was $100,255,700, with 97.69% coming from retail sales to end users.

Consumers of the company pay an average monthly residential electric bill of $161.28. This is 26.63% more than the Kentucky average bill of $125.94. Electricity production is not part of the West Kentucky Rural Electric business plan, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates and then resell to their consumers.