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 36,518 electricity customers signed on for their services. This total is made up of 79.98% residential customer accounts, 20.01% commercial customer accounts and 0.01% industrial customers. On average, West Kentucky Rural Electric charges their customers a residential electricity price of 14.05 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 13.38% below the nationwide average price of 16.22 cents. The company sold 812,843 megawatt hours through retail sales in 2023. 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 2023 from electricity sales was $92,901,500, with 97.55% coming from retail sales to end users.

Consumers of the company pay an average monthly residential electric bill of $190.61. This is 35.03% more than the Kentucky average bill of $140.39. The supplier currently does not produce any of the electricity that they sell. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale rates and then resell it to end consumers. The electricity grid owned by the company experiences an average of 1.81 outages per customer per year, with outages lasting an average of 214.84 minutes. The national average for other suppliers is 1.44 outages per customer and about 123.49 minutes an outage.