Central Georgia EMC Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation reported 62,546 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,283 kWh a month on average at 13.06 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 47 Georgia utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation 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 Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 16 counties in Georgia. 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, Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 77 minutes without power per customer and 1.21 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 64 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation had about 51 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Georgia figure across its utilities was 146 minutes. One interruption lasting 64 minutes and 1.21 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 77 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. Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 5 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 291 residential net-metered systems on the Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 2.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in Georgia.

Of the 56 utilities listed for Georgia, Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation is the 12th largest by homes, at roughly 1.3% of the state total. Its price of 13.06 cents per kWh is 1.22 cents below the median of 34 other cooperatives in Georgia (14.29 cents). At $167.67 a month, an average Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $108 a year more than the Georgia average of $158.70, and uses 207 kWh a month more. Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 16 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 291 of its residential customers use net metering, or 4.7 per 1,000 homes, against 4.4 for Georgia as a whole.

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

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