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Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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

35 thousand

34,651 homes

Average price

14.59 cents

Georgia average 14.74

Average bill

$163.40

Per month at 1,120 kWh

Price rank

27 of 47

Lowest to highest in Georgia

Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation rates and average bill

Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation reported 34,651 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,120 kWh a month on average at 14.59 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, Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation ranks 27 from the lowest price.

Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation compared with Georgia and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation14.591,120$163.40
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 Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in Georgia. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Georgia (11 counties)

Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, McDuffie, Richmond, Warren, Washington

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Reliability

For 2025, Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 143 minutes without power per customer and 1.65 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.

Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation had about 15 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 1.65 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 143 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. Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 4 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 205 residential net-metered systems on the Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 1.5 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.

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

Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation compared with Georgia

By residential customers, Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation ranks 20th of the 56 utilities that report homes in Georgia, with about 0.71% of the state's homes. Its price of 14.59 cents per kWh is 0.40 cents above the median of 34 other cooperatives in Georgia (14.19 cents). Over a year, the typical Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation bill runs about $56 above the state average, with monthly use 44 kWh higher. Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 11 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 205 of its residential customers use net metering, or 5.9 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 Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Jefferson Electric Membership CorporationCooperative34,65114.59
City of MariettaMunicipal36,28811.92
Habersham Electric Membership CorporationCooperative35,51913.99
Diverse Power IncorporatedCooperative33,15417.24
Albany Utility BoardMunicipal31,70613.45
Haywood Electric Membership CorporationCooperative30,75216.86

See every one on the electric companies in Georgia page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Jefferson 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.

Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation questions

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

Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 14.59 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,120 kWh a month and an average bill of $163.40 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Georgia average was 14.74 cents.

How many customers does Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation have?

EIA reports about 34,651 residential customers for Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation in 2025.

Who regulates Jefferson 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 Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation?

For 2025, Jefferson Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 143 minutes of outage per customer and 1.65 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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