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Welcome to the First Frontier...Knox County Kentucky

Lowest Industrial Electrical Cost in U.S

Kentucky’s industrial power costs are over 6% lower than any other state east of the Mississippi River and over a third lower than the U.S. average. Electric power in Kentucky is distributed by four investor owned electric utilities, approximately thirty municipal electric systems, nineteen rural electric cooperatives and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

 

 

 

 

            

 

 

 

 

States	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000
Alabama	4.5	4.2	4.0	3.8	3.8	3.9
Arkansas	4.7	4.2	4.0	4.0	4.4	4.2
Georgia	5.3	4.4	4.0	4.0	4.3	4.1
Illinois	4.6	4.7	4.9	5.0	4.9	5.0
Indiana	4.4	4.1	3.9	4.0	4.1	3.8
Michigan	5.3	4.9	5.0	5.0	5.1	5.1
Mississippi	5.4	4.8	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.1
Missouri	4.5	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.4
N Carolina	5.0	4.9	4.8	4.7	4.7	4.6
Ohio	5.1	4.9	4.8	4.7	4.3	4.4
S Carolina	4.6	4.1	4.0	3.9	3.9	3.7
Tennessee	4.7	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.1
Virginia	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.2	3.9
W Virginia	3.9	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.7	3.8

Source: Energy Information Administration/Electric Power Annual 2005. Rates are in Cents per KWH. (Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development)