MPD Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area Guide

MPD Electric Cooperative reported 32,130 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,312 kWh a month on average at 13.73 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, MPD Electric Cooperative ranks 8 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 MPD 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, MPD Electric Cooperative reported an average of 103 minutes without power per customer and 1.10 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 94 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

MPD Electric Cooperative had about 24 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The South Carolina figure across its utilities was 103 minutes. One interruption lasting 94 minutes and 1.10 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 103 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. MPD 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 214 residential net-metered systems on the MPD Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 1.8 megawatts of capacity. 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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MPD Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in South Carolina.

By residential customers, MPD Electric Cooperative ranks 14th of the 26 utilities that report homes in South Carolina, with about 1.2% of the state's homes. Among 16 other cooperatives in South Carolina, the median price is 16.36 cents per kWh, so MPD Electric Cooperative at 13.73 cents is 2.63 cents below its peers. At $180.11 a month, an average MPD Electric Cooperative home pays about $227 a year more than the South Carolina average of $161.21, and uses 246 kWh a month more. MPD Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 214 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.7 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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