Carteret-Craven EMC Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation reported 39,424 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,055 kWh a month on average at 12.46 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, Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation ranks 11 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 Carteret-Craven 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.

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For 2025, Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 72 minutes without power per customer and 1.11 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 65 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation had about 55 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 65 minutes and 1.11 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 72 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. Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 75 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation in 2025. How net metering works.

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Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in North Carolina.

By residential customers, Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation ranks 14th of the 48 utilities that report homes in North Carolina, with about 0.76% of the state's homes. At $131.43 a month, an average Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $177 a year less than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 11 kWh a month more. Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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.

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