Kansas electricity rates and the average electric bill

Cost per kWh in Kansas, by period

Over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026, Kansas residential customers paid an average of 15.13¢ per kWh, the 19th lowest among the 50 states and DC and 2.91¢ per kWh less than the US average¹. That is average revenue per kWh: everything homes paid their utility, including fixed monthly charges and fuel adjustments, divided by the kWh they used. No Kansas tariff prints that number, and it excludes most taxes.

The figure shifts with the period quoted. For the single month of August 2026, the newest EIA has published, the average was 15.47¢ per kWh, +5.6% against August 2025. From January through August 2026 it was 15.26¢ per kWh¹. The final average for calendar year 2025 was 14.44¢ per kWh³. All 2026 months are preliminary until EIA's annual survey replaces them.

Within those 12 months, the monthly average ran from 14.29¢ per kWh in January 2026 to 15.78¢ per kWh in April 2026. In months of low use, fixed monthly charges are spread over fewer kWh, which raises the average per kWh even when no rate changes; use per home was lowest in April 2026¹.

The average Kansas electric bill

EIA put the average residential bill at $126.42 a month in 2025, $24.26 less a month than the US average and the 14th lowest among the states. Use per home was 876 kWh a month, almost exactly the US average of 874 kWh, so the lower bill reflects the lower price, not lower use. The bill rose 2.0% from 2024, against 5.9%² nationally. Over the last 12 months the computed average was $134.25¹.

That annual average hides a wide seasonal swing. Over the last 12 months, use per home peaked at 1,364 kWh in July 2026 and bottomed at 634 kWh in April 2026, 2.2 times as much. In August 2026, homes used 1,316 kWh on average and the bill came to $203.63¹ (preliminary). Kansas averages 1,507 cooling degree days a year (NOAA, 2016 to 2025 average), the 13th highest⁴ among the contiguous states with data, while only 27.4% of its households heat mainly with electricity in the Census Bureau's 2025 survey, against 41.8%⁵ nationally. Summer, not winter, sets the high bills.

882Sep

722Oct

653Nov

824Dec

1,004Jan

736Feb

692Mar

634Apr

764May

1,041Jun

1,364Jul

1,316Aug

Source: EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Residential kWh sold per customer in each month. The table adds that month's average residential price. Monthly EIA data through August 2026 (released October 23, 2026); months since January 2026 are preliminary.

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Month	kWh per customer	Residential ¢/kWh
September 2025	882	15.06¢
October 2025	722	15.03¢
November 2025	653	14.97¢
December 2025	824	14.31¢
January 2026	1,004	14.29¢
February 2026	736	15.11¢
March 2026	692	15.34¢
April 2026	634	15.78¢
May 2026	764	15.13¢
June 2026	1,041	15.71¢
July 2026	1,364	15.27¢
August 2026	1,316	15.47¢

Households' own reports agree with EIA. In that 2025 survey, the median Kansas household paying for electricity estimated its last monthly bill at about $151, against $169 for the US. 19.7% reported $250 or more (margin of error ±0.7 percentage points), 2.0 percentage points⁶ more than a year earlier; that change is not tested for statistical significance. Census figures are bills recalled by households, including taxes, and they run above EIA's.

A decade of slow price increases

From 2015 to 2025, the Kansas residential price went from 12.34¢ per kWh to 14.44¢ per kWh, a rise of 17.0%, the 3rd lowest increase among the 50 states and DC. Over the same years the US average climbed 36.2%, from 12.65¢ per kWh to 17.23¢ per kWh. In 2015 Kansas was close to the national price; by 2025 it was well below it. The five years from 2020 tell the same story: 12.4% in Kansas (3rd lowest), 31.0%³ nationally.

Nevada+3.9%

Nebraska+13.7%

Kansas+17.0%

Iowa+17.1%

Missouri+18.6%

Idaho+19.1%

New Mexico+19.1%

Montana+19.4%

Utah+19.7%

South Dakota+20.2%

South Carolina+20.3%

Wyoming+21.9%

United States+36.2%

Source: EIA, Historical state data, annual sales, revenue and customers. Change in the annual residential average price from 2015 to 2025 (nominal dollars).

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State	Residential price change, 2015 to 2025
Nevada	+3.9%
Nebraska	+13.7%
Kansas	+17.0%
Iowa	+17.1%
Missouri	+18.6%
Idaho	+19.1%
New Mexico	+19.1%
Montana	+19.4%
Utah	+19.7%
South Dakota	+20.2%
South Carolina	+20.3%
Wyoming	+21.9%
United States	+36.2%

The longer record is less unusual. Kansas homes paid 7.66¢ per kWh in 2001, below the US average of 8.58¢ per kWh⁷, and the increase to 2025 was 88.5%, the 16th lowest. Between 2001 and 2015 the Kansas price rose faster than the national one, nearly closing the gap. The annual average rose in 21 of the years since 2002, and the most recent decline came in 2023, later than the last national decline in 2018³.

KansasUnited States

Source: EIA, Historical state data, annual sales, revenue and customers; EIA, Historical state data, monthly sales and revenue 1990-2009. Average revenue per kWh (all charges, nominal dollars), each calendar year: 2010 onward EIA-861 final annual data, 2001–2009 the sum of the monthly survey.

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Period	Kansas (¢/kWh)	United States (¢/kWh)
2001	7.66¢	8.58¢
2002	7.67¢	8.44¢
2003	7.71¢	8.72¢
2004	7.74¢	8.95¢
2005	7.90¢	9.45¢
2006	8.25¢	10.40¢
2007	8.19¢	10.65¢
2008	8.89¢	11.26¢
2009	9.53¢	11.51¢
2010	10.03¢	11.54¢
2011	10.65¢	11.72¢
2012	11.24¢	11.88¢
2013	11.64¢	12.13¢
2014	12.17¢	12.52¢
2015	12.34¢	12.65¢
2016	13.06¢	12.55¢
2017	13.31¢	12.89¢
2018	13.35¢	12.87¢
2019	12.71¢	13.01¢
2020	12.85¢	13.15¢
2021	12.98¢	13.66¢
2022	13.99¢	15.04¢
2023	13.38¢	16.00¢
2024	14.15¢	16.48¢
2025	14.44¢	17.23¢

The slow stretch has not carried into 2026. The last 12 months ran 5.9% above the 12 before, close to the national 6.5%, and the January to August 2026 average was 6.9%¹ above the same months of 2025. These monthly figures are preliminary.

Kansas electric companies

EIA counts 149 utilities delivering electricity in Kansas. Three of them, all owned by Evergy, serve 79.8% of the state's residential customers: Evergy Kansas Central (30.6%), Evergy Kansas South (27.2%) and Evergy Metro (22.0%). They are separate utilities with separate prices. City of Kansas City (5.5%) and Midwest Energy (2.6%⁸) are the next largest; the rest are mostly cooperatives and small city utilities.

What their full-service residential customers paid in 2025:

• Evergy Kansas Central: 14.56¢ per kWh, +1.9% on 2024; average bill $123.78 for 850 kWh.
• Evergy Kansas South: 14.54¢ per kWh, +2.0%; average bill $124.79 for 858 kWh.
• Evergy Metro: 13.21¢ per kWh, +0.6%; average bill $129.00 for 977 kWh⁸.

Evergy Metro had the lowest price of the three and the highest bill, because its customers used more electricity per home. Over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026, preliminary), the two larger companies averaged 15.35¢ per kWh and 15.35¢ per kWh, Evergy Metro 13.31¢ per kWh⁹. Evergy Metro also serves customers in Missouri, where its prices are reported separately; the Missouri page and the Evergy page compare all of the company's utilities.

Midwest Energy (KS)$107.41

City of Kansas City (KS)$119.94

Evergy Kansas Central (KS)$123.78

Evergy Kansas South (KS)$124.79

Evergy Metro (KS)$129.00

FreeState Electric Cooperative (KS)$194.15

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	average monthly residential bill
Midwest Energy (KS)	$107.41
City of Kansas City (KS)	$119.94
Evergy Kansas Central (KS)	$123.78
Evergy Kansas South (KS)	$124.79
Evergy Metro (KS)	$129.00
FreeState Electric Cooperative (KS)	$194.15

By ownership type, the averages barely differ. In 2025, customers of investor-owned utilities paid 14.13¢ per kWh, electric cooperative members 14.54¢ per kWh and city utility customers 14.30¢ per kWh. Nationally, investor-owned utilities averaged 17.78¢ per kWh and cooperatives 14.10¢ per kWh⁸, so Kansas co-op members paid slightly more than the national co-op average, while customers of the state's investor-owned utilities paid well below theirs.

Individual utilities are further apart. Among the 11 with 10,000 or more residential customers, 2025 averages ran from 12.01¢ per kWh at Midwest Energy to 17.84¢ per kWh at FreeState Electric Cooperative, a spread of 5.83¢ per kWh⁸.

Midwest Energy12.01¢

Victory Electric Cooperative Association12.35¢

Evergy Metro13.21¢

Kansas average14.44¢

Evergy Kansas South14.54¢

Evergy Kansas Central14.56¢

Prairie Land Electric Cooperative14.79¢

City of Kansas City14.93¢

Wheatland Electric Cooperative15.01¢

Southern Pioneer Electric Company16.43¢

City of Garden City16.51¢

FreeState Electric Cooperative17.84¢

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. Utilities with 10,000 or more bundled (full-service) residential customers. Revenue divided by kWh sold, all charges included, EIA-861 2025 final. Darker bars have their own page.

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Utility	¢/kWh
Midwest Energy	12.01¢
Victory Electric Cooperative Association	12.35¢
Evergy Metro	13.21¢
Kansas average	14.44¢
Evergy Kansas South	14.54¢
Evergy Kansas Central	14.56¢
Prairie Land Electric Cooperative	14.79¢
City of Kansas City	14.93¢
Wheatland Electric Cooperative	15.01¢
Southern Pioneer Electric Company	16.43¢
City of Garden City	16.51¢
FreeState Electric Cooperative	17.84¢

Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka: the address decides

Many searches ask for "electric companies in Kansas City", and EIA has no prices for cities. Its service-territory records do show which utilities report customers in each county. In Wyandotte County, home of Kansas City, Kansas, they list three: the city's own municipal utility (City of Kansas City in EIA's records), Evergy Metro and Evergy Kansas Central. In Johnson County they list Evergy Metro, Evergy Kansas Central and City of Gardner. Sedgwick County, around Wichita, is Evergy Kansas South territory alongside several cooperatives and small city utilities; Shawnee County, around Topeka, lists Evergy Kansas Central and FreeState Electric Cooperative.

Sharing is the rule, not the exception: two or more distribution utilities report service in 103 of the state's 105 counties, and 10¹⁰ in McPherson County. Kansas has no retail choice (0.0%⁸ of homes bought from a supplier in 2025), so the boundary on the utility's own map decides who serves a home and at what price.

Evergy Kansas Central only (of these)Evergy Kansas South only (of these)Evergy Metro only (of these)City of Kansas City only (of these)Midwest Energy only (of these)Two or more of themOther utilities only

Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. Counties where each utility reports serving customers (EIA-861 service territory, 2025). A utility often serves only part of a county, and several can share one: the map shows where each one is present, not street-level boundaries. Point at a county for every utility listed there.

Wind generates almost half the power

Wind turbines produced 47.1% of the electricity generated in Kansas in 2025, the 3rd highest share among the states, up from 24.2% in 2015. Coal fell over the same decade from 54.0% to 31.2%, and nuclear power supplied 15.0%. Natural gas, the largest source nationally at 40.9%, made only 5.7% of Kansas's power, the 5th lowest share in the country. Solar was 0.7%¹².

Kansas plants generated the equivalent of 149% of the state's retail electricity sales in 2025, the 10th highest¹² ratio among the states: Kansas generates more electricity than its own customers buy.

Natural gasCoalNuclearHydroWindSolarPetroleumOther

Kansas, 2025

Kansas, 2015

United States, 2025

Source: EIA, Net generation by state by type of producer by energy source. Share of net generation by all power plants located in the state (utilities and independent producers), by energy source. Electricity crosses state lines, so this is what the state produces, not exactly what its customers consume. Pumped storage is a net user of power and is left out.

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	Natural gas	Coal	Nuclear	Hydro	Wind	Solar	Petroleum	Other
Kansas, 2025	5.7%	31.2%	15.0%	0.0%	47.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
Kansas, 2015	2.6%	54.0%	19.0%	0.0%	24.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
United States, 2025	40.9%	16.6%	17.7%	5.5%	10.4%	6.8%	0.4%	1.7%

Kansas against its neighbors

A low price nationally is only middling in this region. Over the last 12 months, 3 of the 4 neighboring states averaged less per kWh than Kansas; Nebraska was lowest at 12.74¢ per kWh and Colorado highest at 16.61¢ per kWh¹.

Businesses pay less per kWh than homes. Over the same 12 months, commercial customers averaged 11.60¢ per kWh (16.4% below the US average) and industrial customers 8.27¢ per kWh (7.2% below the US average¹).

Meters, solar, time-of-use and outages

Smart meters are nearly universal: 93.3% of residential meters were advanced meters in 2025, and all three Evergy utilities reported 100.0%. Time-varying pricing is uncommon: 2.2% of residential customers were on such a rate, though each Evergy utility reported a time-of-use program to EIA. Rooftop solar is rare too, with 7.4 net-metered residential installations per 1,000 customers (9,805 in total), the 13th lowest¹³ rate among the states.

On reliability, Kansas customers averaged 197 minutes without power in 2025 including major storms and 97 minutes on ordinary days, with 1.32 interruptions per customer. Major events weighed most on Evergy Kansas South: 244 minutes in total but 84 minutes excluding major event days, against 126 minutes at Evergy Kansas Central and 129 minutes¹⁴ at Evergy Metro. The power outages ranking puts these minutes beside the other states'.

Help paying a Kansas electric bill

Kansas received $38.6 million from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program for fiscal 2026; the first release for fiscal 2027 was $33.9 million. The fiscal 2026 amount equals $32.05 per occupied home, the 25th lowest¹⁵ among the states. The help paying your electric bill guide explains how the program works and what else to ask a utility about.