City of Gastonia Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Gastonia reported 27,524 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 903 kWh a month on average at 12.34 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, City of Gastonia ranks 10 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 City of Gastonia has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county 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, City of Gastonia reported an average of 150 minutes without power per customer and 0.70 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 215 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Gastonia had about 23 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 215 minutes and 0.70 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 150 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. City of Gastonia 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for City of Gastonia in 2025. How net metering works.

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City of Gastonia is a municipal utility based in North Carolina.

Of the 48 utilities listed for North Carolina, City of Gastonia is the 26th largest by homes, at roughly 0.53% of the state total. Among 20 other municipal utilities in North Carolina, the median price is 12.63 cents per kWh, so City of Gastonia at 12.34 cents is 0.28 cents below its peers. At $111.39 a month, an average City of Gastonia home pays about $417 a year less than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 142 kWh a month less. City of Gastonia lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address.

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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