City of Orangeburg Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Orangeburg reported 20,682 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,079 kWh a month on average at 15.18 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 27 South Carolina utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Orangeburg ranks 13 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 Orangeburg has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in South 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 Orangeburg reported an average of 183 minutes without power per customer and 1.62 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 113 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Orangeburg had about 55 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The South Carolina figure across its utilities was 103 minutes. One interruption lasting 113 minutes and 1.62 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 183 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 Orangeburg reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 144 residential net-metered systems on the City of Orangeburg grid in 2025, with 2.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Orangeburg is a municipal utility based in South Carolina.

By residential customers, City of Orangeburg ranks 19th of the 26 utilities that report homes in South Carolina, with about 0.79% of the state's homes. Its price of 15.18 cents per kWh is 2.84 cents above the median of 5 other municipal utilities in South Carolina (12.34 cents). At $163.78 a month, an average City of Orangeburg home pays about $31 a year more than the South Carolina average of $161.21, and uses 12 kWh a month more. City of Orangeburg lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 144 of its residential customers use net metering, or 7.0 per 1,000 homes, against 16.1 for South Carolina as a whole.

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

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