City of Lexington Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Lexington reported 18,282 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,125 kWh a month on average at 11.62 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 Lexington ranks 5 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 Lexington 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 Lexington reported an average of 147 minutes without power per customer and 1.68 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 87 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Lexington had about 19 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 87 minutes and 1.68 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 147 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. City of Lexington 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 Lexington in 2025. How net metering works.

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

By residential customers, City of Lexington ranks 33rd of the 48 utilities that report homes in North Carolina, with about 0.35% of the state's homes. Its price of 11.62 cents per kWh is 1.01 cents below the median of 20 other municipal utilities in North Carolina (12.63 cents). At $130.71 a month, an average City of Lexington home pays about $185 a year less than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 81 kWh a month more. City of Lexington 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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