Kentucky Power Co

What This Utility Data Tells You

Kentucky Power Co is an investor-owned utility operating in Kentucky under EIA identifier 22053. It reports service to approximately 162,743 customer accounts and generated about $0.57 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 230 ZIP codes. Investor ownership puts this utility under the regulatory authority of the state public utility commission, which reviews its rate requests and reliability record.

In 2023, the average Kentucky Power Co customer experienced 718.4 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that runs well past the 120–180 minute national benchmark, which can reflect storm-exposed terrain, an aging grid, or slower restoration times. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 2.35 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 2 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 331.8 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 718.4 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

With 4 consecutive years of EIA data (2020–2023), Kentucky Power Co's reliability record can be judged on trend rather than one isolated year. SAIDI dropped from 1751.0 to 718.4 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.