13.83¢
per kWh, 2025
[ Knoxville Utilities Board / TN ]
Knoxville Utilities Board electricity rates in Tennessee
CITY SETS RATES · DATA 2025
change in average rate, 2024→2025
+10.3%
vs 2024
196,674
residential customers
+30.2%
since 2020
What your bill becomes
Bill today
No change on file
Difference / month · / year
Estimated at Knoxville Utilities Board's average effective residential rate (13.83¢/kWh, EIA, all charges included). Your tariff, fees and taxes differ.
Rate history 2015–2025
| Year | ¢/kWh | Change | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9.98¢ | — | 174,523 |
| 2016 | 10.17¢ | +1.9% | 176,259 |
| 2017 | 10.60¢ | +4.2% | 178,043 |
| 2018 | 10.49¢ | −1.0% | 179,583 |
| 2019 | 10.67¢ | +1.7% | 181,304 |
| 2020 | 10.62¢ | −0.5% | 183,076 |
| 2021 | 10.86¢ | +2.3% | 185,566 |
| 2022 | 12.21¢ | +12.4% | 187,716 |
| 2023 | 12.28¢ | +0.6% | 190,846 |
| 2024 | 12.54¢ | +2.1% | 193,707 |
| 2025 | 13.83¢ | +10.3% | 196,674 |
How this compares
13.22¢
Tennessee average, 2025
+4.6%
Knoxville Utilities Board vs TN 2025 average
−19.7%
vs US 2025 average
#18
priciest in TN
Serves 7 counties in Tennessee: Anderson, Blount, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Sevier, Union. 45 ZIP codes.
What the numbers show
Since 2015, Knoxville Utilities Board's average residential rate has gone from 9.98¢ to 13.83¢ per kWh: +38.6% over 10 years, or about +3.3% a year. It rose in 8 of the 10 years we can compare, and the biggest one-year increase was +12.4% in 2022. The largest drop was −1.0% in 2018.
For a home using 1,180 kWh a month, the Tennessee average, Knoxville Utilities Board's 2025 rate works out to about $1,958 a year, $86 more than at Tennessee's average rate of 13.22¢. Of the 87 Tennessee utilities in our data with a 2025 price, it is the 18th most expensive.
Knoxville Utilities Board served 174,523 homes in 2015 and 196,674 in 2025 (+12.7%), about 6% of Tennessee's residential electricity customers.
Who sets Knoxville Utilities Board's rates
Knoxville Utilities Board is a municipal utility owned by the local government. The city council or a local utility board sets its rates, usually after a public meeting, and the Tennessee Public Utility Commission generally does not.
Commission contact: Tennessee Public Utility Commission. How we calculate every figure on this page: methodology.
Questions
Is Knoxville Utilities Board raising rates in 2026?
Knoxville Utilities Board's rates are set by the city council or a local utility board, not through a rate case at the Tennessee Public Utility Commission, so check its own notices for a change this year. Its average residential rate moved +10.3% from 2024 to 2025.
What does Knoxville Utilities Board charge per kWh?
Knoxville Utilities Board's average effective residential rate was 13.83¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA-861, revenue divided by sales, all charges included). Tennessee's 2025 average was 13.22¢.
How much have Knoxville Utilities Board rates gone up in five years?
+30.2% between 2020 and 2025, against +22.7% for Tennessee as a whole over the latest five-year window.
How many customers does Knoxville Utilities Board have in Tennessee?
196,674 residential customers in 2025, across 7 counties including Anderson, Blount, Grainger, according to the EIA-861 survey.
Where do these numbers come from?
Rates and customer counts are from the US Energy Information Administration's annual EIA-861 survey, which every US utility files. Nothing here is a utility bill; use it to understand the direction and size of changes.
Sources
- EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2015–2025 (released 2026-10-07)
- EIA-861M monthly state averages through Jul 2026
- NREL utility-by-ZIP lookup (2024)