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Cobb Electric Membership Corporation Rates and Average Bill

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Cobb Electric Membership Corporation, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

203 thousand

203,131 homes

Average price

11.55 cents

Georgia average 14.74

Average bill

$128.80

Per month at 1,116 kWh

Price rank

2 of 47

Lowest to highest in Georgia

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation rates and average bill

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation reported 203,131 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,116 kWh a month on average at 11.55 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, Cobb Electric Membership Corporation ranks 2 from the lowest price.

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation compared with Georgia and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Cobb Electric Membership Corporation11.551,116$128.80
Georgia (all utilities)14.741,077$158.70
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Cobb Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 5 counties in Georgia. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Georgia (5 counties)

Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, Paulding

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Reliability

For 2025, Cobb Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 32 minutes without power per customer and 0.78 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 41 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation had about 95 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Georgia figure across its utilities was 146 minutes. One interruption lasting 41 minutes and 0.78 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 32 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Cobb Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 3,643 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 628 residential net-metered systems on the Cobb Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 4.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Georgia Public Service Commission.

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

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation operates in the ERCOT power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation compared with Georgia

Georgia has 56 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Cobb Electric Membership Corporation is 3rd by size and serves about 4.2% of the state's homes. Its price of 11.55 cents per kWh is 2.74 cents below the median of 34 other cooperatives in Georgia (14.29 cents). Over a year, the typical Cobb Electric Membership Corporation bill runs about $359 below the state average, with monthly use 39 kWh higher. Cobb Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 628 of its residential customers use net metering, or 3.1 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.

Other Georgia utilities

Utilities in Georgia close in size to Cobb Electric Membership Corporation
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Cobb Electric Membership CorporationCooperative203,13111.55
Georgia PowerInvestor-owned2,480,48416.28
Jackson Electric Membership CorporationCooperative245,84911.87
Sawnee Electric Membership CorporationCooperative182,84912.82
City of ChattanoogaMunicipal176,21912.92
GreyStone PowerCooperative142,84112.55

See every one on the electric companies in Georgia page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Cobb Electric Membership Corporation and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Cobb Electric Membership Corporation?

Cobb Electric Membership Corporation residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 11.55 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,116 kWh a month and an average bill of $128.80 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Georgia average was 14.74 cents.

How many customers does Cobb Electric Membership Corporation have?

EIA reports about 203,131 residential customers for Cobb Electric Membership Corporation in 2025.

Who regulates Cobb Electric Membership Corporation?

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return. See the regulator for Georgia on the Georgia state page.

How reliable is Cobb Electric Membership Corporation?

For 2025, Cobb Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 32 minutes of outage per customer and 0.78 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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