City of Paducah electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 18,863 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 15.55¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the Kentucky average of 14.98¢ closely, which is what you would expect from a utility large enough to shape that average itself.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 892 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

Owned by the city it serves and governed by a local board rather than the state commission. No shareholder return is built into the rate. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

In 2024 the average City of Paducah customer went 18 minutes without electricity across 0.37 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is markedly better than typical. Short outage durations usually mean an underground or heavily automated network, and they are expensive to achieve, which is part of why reliable systems often carry higher delivery charges.