Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative reported 30,215 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,051 kWh a month on average at 14.32 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 18 Virginia utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative ranks 8 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative'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 Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 14 counties in Virginia, 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, Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative reported an average of 244 minutes without power per customer and 1.96 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 125 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative had about 117 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Virginia figure across its utilities was 284 minutes. One interruption lasting 125 minutes and 1.96 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 244 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. Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative 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 190 residential net-metered systems on the Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 1.5 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Virginia, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative ranks 10th of the 17 utilities that report homes in Virginia, with about 0.82% of the state's homes. Its price of 14.32 cents per kWh is 0.66 cents below the median of 8 other cooperatives in Virginia (14.99 cents). At $150.45 a month, an average Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative home pays about $151 a year less than the Virginia average of $163.05, and uses 16 kWh a month less. Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Virginia, for comparisons. 190 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.3 per 1,000 homes, against 20.7 for Virginia as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Virginia with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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