Utility rates & providers in Franklin County, KY

The Frankfort Plant Board (FPB) distributes electricity to roughly 21,000 meters in Franklin County (and portions of Shelby and Woodford Counties) under published residential Rate 10: a monthly customer charge plus an all-kWh energy charge, with an optional residential time-of-use schedule and a Power Cost Adjustment line item for wholesale power cost swings. FPB describes purchasing wholesale power through Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency (KYMEA) arrangements—see FPB’s electric rate and power-cost pages for the current figures.

Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) serves many Franklin County addresses outside FPB’s certified municipal territory under Schedule RS in its PSC tariff: a daily basic service charge plus per-kWh energy charges split into infrastructure and variable components, with riders that can appear as separate line items. KU’s rates change through PSC contested cases; the official tariff book on PSC.ky.gov and KU’s regulatory hub remain the controlling references after any commission order.

Blue Grass Energy Cooperative Corporation serves additional member accounts in Franklin County under schedules such as GS-1 (residential and farm), with PSC-approved facility charges and energy charges plus East Kentucky Power Cooperative wholesale cost components including a fuel adjustment clause. Cooperative members should use Blue Grass Energy’s posted tariff summary and the PSC electric cooperative tariff library for the effective version.

If you are unsure which electric provider serves a property, check the bill header or each utility’s outage or service-area tools—Franklin County can have FPB, KU, or Blue Grass Energy meters on nearby streets.

FPB water customers inside the corporate limits of Frankfort pay in-city volumetric blocks; FPB also publishes higher per-1,000-gallon rates for residential meters outside the corporate city limits, with meter-size monthly charges on its public water rate page. FPB’s distribution system is large enough that wholesale water relationships and regional interconnections appear in its tariff narrative—your bill format identifies FPB retail water.

The Kentucky Division of Water’s public water-system index lists multiple active community water systems in Franklin County, including Elkhorn Water District, Farmdale Water District, Peaks Mill Water District, and Frankfort Plant Board. Rural-district customers are billed under each district’s PSC tariff (minimum bills, volume tiers, and surcharges differ); Peaks Mill and other districts have undergone recent PSC-reviewed rate adjustments reported in local news—use the district’s current tariff PDF for budgeting.

If your water bill is not from FPB or one of the named districts, you may be on a very small system or a purchased-water arrangement—compare the legal name on your statement to the provider’s PSC filing.

City of Frankfort sanitary sewer charges for customers on public sewer are set in city code (Article 52) and implemented through ordinances filed in the city’s document center; many FPB utility customers see sewer as a coordinated line item with water. Rates have been updated on multi-year schedules in recent ordinances—confirm the effective date block that matches your billing period.

Properties not connected to municipal sewer may rely on individual septic systems or small package plants subject to Franklin County Local Health Department and state onsite sewage rules—those costs are not interchangeable with city sewer tariffs.

Inside the City of Frankfort’s municipal solid-waste program, residential garbage and recycling collection is a city Public Works service with cart-based pickup described on the city’s waste-collection pages; our Frankfort city estimate treats typical residential collection as city-funded rather than a separate monthly subscription line in the simplified model—confirm cart rules and any special assessments on your notice.

Franklin County government contracts residential trash and recycling collection for many county-address households (outside the city program) with published hauler contact information and cart color guidance on the county Solid Waste Management pages—pricing is through the contracted hauler or county billing mechanism described in county materials, not the same as the City of Frankfort program.

Always confirm whether your street address is in the city sanitation program or the county solid-waste contract area before comparing monthly costs.