French Broad Electric Membership Corporation Rates and Bills

French Broad Electric Membership Corporation reported 37,052 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 807 kWh a month on average at 16.21 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, French Broad Electric Membership Corporation ranks 41 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of French Broad Electric Membership Corporation's states together. A utility with a large territory can have different rates in different places.

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 French Broad Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 7 counties in North Carolina, Tennessee. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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• Time-of-use pricing. French Broad Electric Membership Corporation 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 shows 345 residential net-metered systems on the French Broad Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 2.5 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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.

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French Broad Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in North Carolina, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

North Carolina has 48 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. French Broad Electric Membership Corporation is 16th by size and serves about 0.70% of the state's homes. Among 23 other cooperatives in North Carolina, the median price is 14.92 cents per kWh, so French Broad Electric Membership Corporation at 16.21 cents is 1.30 cents above its peers. At $130.76 a month, an average French Broad Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $185 a year less than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 238 kWh a month less. French Broad Electric Membership Corporation reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, North Carolina, for comparisons. 345 of its residential customers use net metering, or 9.3 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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