Coastal Electric Membership Corporation Rates and Bills

Coastal Electric Membership Corporation reported 21,397 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,259 kWh a month on average at 14.38 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, Coastal Electric Membership Corporation ranks 26 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 Coastal Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 4 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, Coastal Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 199 minutes without power per customer and 2.30 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 86 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Coastal Electric Membership Corporation had about 71 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Georgia figure across its utilities was 146 minutes. One interruption lasting 86 minutes and 2.30 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 199 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. Coastal Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 158 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 245 residential net-metered systems on the Coastal Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 2.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

Of the 56 utilities listed for Georgia, Coastal Electric Membership Corporation is the 26th largest by homes, at roughly 0.44% of the state total. Among 34 other cooperatives in Georgia, the median price is 14.19 cents per kWh, so Coastal Electric Membership Corporation at 14.38 cents is 0.19 cents above its peers. At $181.06 a month, an average Coastal Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $268 a year more than the Georgia average of $158.70, and uses 183 kWh a month more. Coastal Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 245 of its residential customers use net metering, or 11.5 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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