Laurens Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Laurens Electric Cooperative reported 59,786 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,071 kWh a month on average at 15.62 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 27 South Carolina utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Laurens Electric Cooperative ranks 15 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 Laurens Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 7 counties in South 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, Laurens Electric Cooperative reported an average of 154 minutes without power per customer and 1.56 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 99 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Laurens Electric Cooperative had about 27 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The South Carolina figure across its utilities was 103 minutes. One interruption lasting 99 minutes and 1.56 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 154 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. Laurens Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 5 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 1 residential net-metered systems on the Laurens Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 0.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Laurens Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in South Carolina.

South Carolina has 26 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Laurens Electric Cooperative is 8th by size and serves about 2.3% of the state's homes. Its price of 15.62 cents per kWh is 0.74 cents below the median of 16 other cooperatives in South Carolina (16.36 cents). Over a year, the typical Laurens Electric Cooperative bill runs about $72 above the state average, with monthly use 4 kWh higher. Laurens Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1 of its residential customers use net metering, or 0.0 per 1,000 homes, against 16.1 for South 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 South Carolina with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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