City of Wilson Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

City of Wilson reported 32,472 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,115 kWh a month on average at 12.85 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 Wilson 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 Wilson has distribution equipment. That covers 7 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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For 2025, City of Wilson reported an average of 51 minutes without power per customer and 0.49 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 103 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

City of Wilson had about 77 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 103 minutes and 0.49 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 51 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 Wilson 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 Wilson in 2025. How net metering works.

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For questions about state consumer protections, see the North Carolina Utilities Commission.

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

North Carolina has 48 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Wilson is 17th by size and serves about 0.63% of the state's homes. Its price of 12.85 cents per kWh is 0.39 cents above the median of 20 other municipal utilities in North Carolina (12.46 cents). At $143.25 a month, an average City of Wilson home pays about $35 a year less than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 71 kWh a month more. City of Wilson lists distribution equipment in 7 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.

See every one on the electric companies in North Carolina page.

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