Central Electric Membership Corporation Rates and Bills

Central Electric Membership Corporation reported 20,677 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,434 kWh a month on average at 15.37 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, Central Electric Membership Corporation ranks 37 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 Central Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 5 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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• Time-of-use pricing. Central Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 3 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 Central Electric Membership Corporation in 2025. 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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Central Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in North Carolina.

North Carolina has 48 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Central Electric Membership Corporation is 31st by size and serves about 0.40% of the state's homes. Its price of 15.37 cents per kWh is 0.45 cents above the median of 23 other cooperatives in North Carolina (14.92 cents). At $220.28 a month, an average Central Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $890 a year more than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 389 kWh a month more. Central Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 5 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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