Fayetteville Public Works Commission Rates and Average Bill

Fayetteville Public Works Commission reported 75,618 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,004 kWh a month on average at 12.14 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, Fayetteville Public Works Commission ranks 9 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 Fayetteville Public Works Commission 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, Fayetteville Public Works Commission reported an average of 73 minutes without power per customer and 1.36 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 53 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Fayetteville Public Works Commission had about 55 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 53 minutes and 1.36 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 73 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. Fayetteville Public Works Commission reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 75,618 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 429 residential net-metered systems on the Fayetteville Public Works Commission grid in 2025, with 2.7 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Fayetteville Public Works Commission is a municipal utility based in North Carolina.

By residential customers, Fayetteville Public Works Commission ranks 7th of the 48 utilities that report homes in North Carolina, with about 1.5% of the state's homes. Among 20 other municipal utilities in North Carolina, the median price is 12.63 cents per kWh, so Fayetteville Public Works Commission at 12.14 cents is 0.49 cents below its peers. At $121.90 a month, an average Fayetteville Public Works Commission home pays about $291 a year less than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 40 kWh a month less. Fayetteville Public Works Commission lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 429 of its residential customers use net metering, or 5.7 per 1,000 homes, against 12.8 for North 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 North Carolina with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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