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Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation Rates and Bills

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

108 thousand

108,087 homes

Average price

13.34 cents

North Carolina average 14.00

Average bill

$144.13

Per month at 1,081 kWh

Price rank

20 of 48

Lowest to highest in North Carolina

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation rates and average bill

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation reported 108,087 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,081 kWh a month on average at 13.34 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 48 North Carolina utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation ranks 20 from the lowest price.

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation compared with North Carolina and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation13.341,081$144.13
North Carolina (all utilities)14.001,044$146.14
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

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

North Carolina (4 counties)

Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Robeson

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Reliability

For 2025, Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 36 minutes without power per customer and 0.60 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 59 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation had about 92 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 59 minutes and 0.60 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 36 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 108,087 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
  • Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 1,008 residential net-metered systems on the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 7.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

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.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in North Carolina.

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation compared with North Carolina

North Carolina has 48 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation is 4th by size and serves about 2.1% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.34 cents per kWh is 1.77 cents below the median of 23 other cooperatives in North Carolina (15.10 cents). Over a year, the typical Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation bill runs about $24 below the state average, with monthly use 37 kWh higher. Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,008 of its residential customers use net metering, or 9.3 per 1,000 homes, against 12.8 for North 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 North Carolina with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

Other North Carolina utilities

Utilities in North Carolina close in size to Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Brunswick Electric Membership CorporationCooperative108,08713.34
Duke Energy ProgressInvestor-owned1,527,82515.07
EnergyUnited Electric Membership CorporationCooperative124,44611.61
Union Electric Membership CorporationCooperative86,85213.92
Jones-Onslow Electric Membership CorporationCooperative81,07013.39
Fayetteville Public Works CommissionMunicipal75,61812.14

See every one on the electric companies in North Carolina page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation?

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 13.34 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,081 kWh a month and an average bill of $144.13 (EIA Form EIA-861). The North Carolina average was 14.00 cents.

How many customers does Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation have?

EIA reports about 108,087 residential customers for Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation in 2025.

Who regulates Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation?

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. See the regulator for North Carolina on the North Carolina state page.

How reliable is Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation?

For 2025, Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 36 minutes of outage per customer and 0.60 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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