Black River Electric Cooperative, SC Rates and Average Bill

Black River Electric Cooperative reported 30,874 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,289 kWh a month on average at 15.14 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 27 South Carolina utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Black River Electric Cooperative ranks 12 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Black River Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 4 counties in South Carolina. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Black River Electric Cooperative reported an average of 96 minutes without power per customer and 1.09 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 88 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Black River Electric Cooperative had about 31 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The South Carolina figure across its utilities was 103 minutes. One interruption lasting 88 minutes and 1.09 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 96 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Black River Electric Cooperative does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 461 residential net-metered systems on the Black River Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 3.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

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Black River Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in South Carolina.

Of the 26 utilities listed for South Carolina, Black River Electric Cooperative is the 15th largest by homes, at roughly 1.2% of the state total. Its price of 15.14 cents per kWh is 1.22 cents below the median of 16 other cooperatives in South Carolina (16.36 cents). At $195.19 a month, an average Black River Electric Cooperative home pays about $408 a year more than the South Carolina average of $161.21, and uses 223 kWh a month more. Black River Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 461 of its residential customers use net metering, or 14.9 per 1,000 homes, against 16.1 for South Carolina as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in South Carolina with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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