Nashville Electric Service Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Nashville Electric Service is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 13216. In 2024 it served 417,640 bundled residential customers in Tennessee, and its average realised residential price was 13.47 cents per kWh: $689 million of residential revenue divided by 5.12 million MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Nashville Electric Service's 2024 average prices were 12.03 cents for commercial customers (45,757 accounts) and 7.56 cents for industrial customers (58 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.91 cents less per kWh than households, a 44% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Tennessee, Nashville Electric Service ranked number 1 of 88 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (417,640) and accounted for 11.67% 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 12.42 cents per kWh, so Nashville Electric Service's customers paid 1.05 cents above the Tennessee average (+8.5%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Tennessee is 14.07 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 Nashville Electric Service in 7 Tennessee counties: Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: TVA.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.04 cents per kWh for Nashville Electric Service in Tennessee across 424,808 residential customers, 0.57 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in Tennessee by service-territory centroid are City of Gallatin (TN) (23.5 miles away, 11.78 cents), Middle Tennessee E M C (23.9 miles away, 11.76 cents), City of Springfield (TN) (25.5 miles away, 11.47 cents), Cumberland Elec Member Corp (30.1 miles away, 12.99 cents), and Columbia Power System (TN) (34.2 miles away, 12.00 cents).