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Haywood Electric Membership Corporation Rates and Bills

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 Haywood 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

31 thousand

30,752 homes

Average price

16.86 cents

North Carolina average 14.00

Average bill

$138.46

Per month at 821 kWh

Price rank

45 of 48

Lowest to highest in North Carolina

Haywood Electric Membership Corporation rates and average bill

Haywood Electric Membership Corporation reported 30,752 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 821 kWh a month on average at 16.86 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, Haywood Electric Membership Corporation ranks 45 from the lowest price.

Haywood Electric Membership Corporation compared with North Carolina and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Haywood Electric Membership Corporation16.86821$138.46
North Carolina (all utilities)14.001,044$146.14
United States17.23874$150.68

Figures cover all of Haywood 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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Haywood Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

North Carolina (6 counties)

Buncombe, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Transylvania

Georgia (1 county)

Rabun

South Carolina (1 county)

Oconee

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Reliability

For 2025, Haywood Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 554 minutes without power per customer and 4.69 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 118 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Haywood Electric Membership Corporation had about 427 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 118 minutes and 4.69 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 554 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. Haywood Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 35 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 211 residential net-metered systems on the Haywood Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 1.7 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 North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Haywood Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in North Carolina, and it also reports customers in 2 other states.

Haywood Electric Membership Corporation compared with North Carolina

Of the 48 utilities listed for North Carolina, Haywood Electric Membership Corporation is the 20th largest by homes, at roughly 0.59% of the state total. At $138.46 a month, an average Haywood Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $92 a year less than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 223 kWh a month less. Haywood Electric Membership Corporation reports customers in 3 states, and this profile uses its largest, North Carolina, for comparisons. 211 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.9 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.

Other North Carolina utilities

Utilities in North Carolina close in size to Haywood Electric Membership Corporation
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Haywood Electric Membership CorporationCooperative30,75216.86
Randolph Electric Membership CorporationCooperative31,53116.15
Four County Electric Membership CorporationCooperative31,22215.10
Piedmont Electric Membership CorporationCooperative30,64015.63
Mecklenburg Electric CooperativeCooperative30,21514.32
City of ConcordMunicipal30,02911.57

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

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Haywood 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.

Haywood Electric Membership Corporation questions

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

Haywood Electric Membership Corporation residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 16.86 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 821 kWh a month and an average bill of $138.46 (EIA Form EIA-861). The North Carolina average was 14.00 cents.

How many customers does Haywood Electric Membership Corporation have?

EIA reports about 30,752 residential customers for Haywood Electric Membership Corporation in 2025.

Who regulates Haywood 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 North Carolina on the North Carolina state page.

How reliable is Haywood Electric Membership Corporation?

For 2025, Haywood Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 554 minutes of outage per customer and 4.69 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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