Kentucky (KY) electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
13.81¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$3.54
per therm
Gas and electricity in the same unit
A therm is 29.3 kilowatt hours of energy, so Kentucky's gas works out at 12.09¢ per kWh against 13.81¢ for electricity.
That compares the energy you buy, not the heat you get. A furnace throws away a fifth of every therm up the flue, while a heat pump delivers two to three times the heat in a kilowatt hour — so the cheaper unit here is not automatically the cheaper way to heat a house.
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-07. Updated monthly.
How Kentucky compares
At 13.81¢ per kWh, Kentucky is below the national average of 19.26¢, making it the 8th cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Kentucky household uses
Electricity a month
1,107 kWh
Bill a month
$154
Households in Kentucky use 29% more electricity than the national average and end up with a bill close to it. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 13.81¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate is fairly balanced — 4,300 heating degree days against 1,400 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
More on this: the average electric bill in Kentucky, including how far it swings between seasons.
Averaged over twelve months across 2,031,476 residential accounts in Kentucky. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Kentucky sees around 95 freezing nights a year. Whether a heat pump beats a furnace here depends on the gap between those two prices above — not on the equipment.
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