City of Benton (KY) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Municipal|EIA utility 1582|Kentucky|Bundled
In 2024, City of Benton (KY)'s residential customers paid an average of 14.07 cents per kWh: $3.3 million of revenue over 23,554 MWh of sales across 1,889 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 14.07c figure is calculated
14.07c/kWh = $3,315k revenue / 23,554 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything City of Benton (KY) billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $141 before taxes.
About City of Benton (KY)'s 2024 electricity prices
City of Benton (KY) is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 1582. In 2024 it served 1,889 bundled residential customers in Kentucky, and its average realised residential price was 14.07 cents per kWh: $3.3 million of residential revenue divided by 23,554 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, City of Benton (KY)'s 2024 average prices were 13.18 cents for commercial customers (680 accounts) and 8.23 cents for industrial customers (1 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.84 cents less per kWh than households, a 42% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within Kentucky, City of Benton (KY) ranked number 42 of 46 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (1,889) and accounted for 0.09% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 12.79 cents per kWh, so City of Benton (KY)'s customers paid 1.28 cents above the Kentucky average (+10.0%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Kentucky is 14.26 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.
EIA's service-territory file places City of Benton (KY) in 1 Kentucky county: Marshall. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: TVA.
City of Benton (KY) is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.
The nearest other utilities in Kentucky by service-territory centroid are West Kentucky Rural E C C (15 miles away, 13.46 cents), City of Murray (KY) (18.3 miles away, 13.27 cents), Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation (19.7 miles away, 15.64 cents), City of Mayfield Plant Board (20.7 miles away, 13.37 cents), and City of Paducah (KY) (24.1 miles away, 15.55 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 1,889 | 23,554 | 3,315 | 14.07 |
| Commercial | 680 | 30,935 | 4,076 | 13.18 |
| Industrial | 1 | 15,345 | 1,263 | 8.23 |
Counties served in Kentucky (1)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Kentucky
- EIA utility number
- 1582
- Ownership type
- Municipal
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Kentucky
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (KY, price basis)
- 1,889
- Residential accounts served (KY)
- 1,889
- All accounts, all sectors (KY)
- 2,570
- Residential price, 2024
- 14.07 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 13.18 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 8.23 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 23,554 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $3.3 million
- Rank in Kentucky by residential accounts served
- 42 of 46
- Share of Kentucky residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.09%
- Kentucky average, 2024
- 12.79 c/kWh
- Counties served (KY)
- 1
- NERC region
- SERC
- Balancing authority
- TVA
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].