Federal contractor · LEXINGTON, KY

KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY

KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY received $866.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+9.8% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $11.4M. Its largest customer was Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons ($866.7K). It also received $35M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$866.7K
New awards
2
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
PPL CORP
Other than small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION company family: 2 registered entities, $1.7M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATIONALLENTOWN, PA · Family page
    $789.8K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 821.4KFY2017
  2. 796.1KFY2018
  3. 2.5MFY2019
  4. 2.5MFY2020
  5. 691.6KFY2021
  6. 816.3KFY2022
  7. 837.7KFY2023
  8. 808.3KFY2024
  9. 789.6KFY2025
  10. 866.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$866.7K100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$866.7K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Fayette County, KY$866.7K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $866.7K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $866.7K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$866.7K
    Department of Justice · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. FMC LEXINGTON UTILITY SERVICE- ELECTRICITY$876.3K
    Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Facilities & utilities· Jan 6, 2026 – Apr 27, 2026· 15B10926F00000047
  2. KENTUCKY UTILITIES FOR FY25$797.4K
    Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Facilities & utilities· Nov 1, 2024 – Nov 21, 2025· 15B10925F00000027

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY received $35M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (1 new awards), −48% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 81.255 · Clean Energy Demonstrations ($35M).

Assistance · FY2026
$35M
New awards
1
Actions
1
Since FY2024
$107M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 4.9MFY2024
  2. 67.1MFY2025
  3. 35MFY2026

By type

  1. Other assistance$35M100%

Top programs

  1. 81.255 · Clean Energy Demonstrations$35M100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Energy$35M100%

Largest awards

  1. SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION (SCR) AT GHENT COAL-FIRED GENERATING STATION$35M
    81.255 · Clean Energy Demonstrations· Department of Energy· Other financial assistance· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· DECD0000167

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

2 companies · $5M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$4.9M
    LEXINGTON, KY · 1 subaward
  2. KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY$79.9K
    FRANKFORT, KY · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

No prime reported paying it.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. DTE ENERGY COMPANY$6.8M−5.9% in FY2026
    DETROIT, MI · 2 entities · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distributionArmy · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
  2. FLORIDA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMPANY$3.7M+53% in FY2026
    FERNANDINA BEACH, FL · 64% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
  3. POWELL VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE$3.6M−3.3% in FY2026
    NEW TAZEWELL, TN · 63% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.