Kentucky electricity prices - 13.81¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in Kentucky costs 13.81¢/kWh as of - +5.2% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average Kentucky home used 1,394 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $192.52 (−2.5% vs a year earlier).
- Kentucky has the 44th-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 25% below the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 13.81¢ | +5.2% |
| Commercial | 11.95¢ | +2.7% |
| Industrial | 7.51¢ | +2.7% |
Kentucky is served by the PJM grid region (in part), where the price of guaranteed generating capacity is set in an annual auction - see PJM capacity auction prices for how that reaches retail bills.
Water
Electricity delivered in Kentucky carries 2.33 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.33 L/kWh excluding hydropower reservoir evaporation), against a national average of 4.28. That is below the national figure, and it is a property of the grid here rather than of any one building: a data center drawing 100 GWh a year in Kentucky accounts for about 61.7 million gallons of power-plant water before it cools anything. All states ranked →
A data center's water use is roughly twelve times larger once the water evaporated at its power plants is counted. The Colorado River arithmetic → · how the water numbers work →
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