Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative reported 57,067 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,158 kWh a month on average at 16.83 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, Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative ranks 20 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 Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 5 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, Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative reported an average of 90 minutes without power per customer and 1.48 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 61 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative had about 37 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The South Carolina figure across its utilities was 103 minutes. One interruption lasting 61 minutes and 1.48 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 90 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. Mid-Carolina 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 does not show residential net-metered solar for Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative in 2025. 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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Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in South Carolina.

Of the 26 utilities listed for South Carolina, Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative is the 9th largest by homes, at roughly 2.2% of the state total. Its price of 16.83 cents per kWh is 0.50 cents above the median of 16 other cooperatives in South Carolina (16.33 cents). Over a year, the typical Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative bill runs about $404 above the state average, with monthly use 91 kWh higher. Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you.

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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