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Okefenoke Rural EMC Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

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 Okefenoke Rural 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

40 thousand

39,729 homes

Average price

14.20 cents

Georgia average 14.74

Average bill

$172.32

Per month at 1,214 kWh

Price rank

25 of 47

Lowest to highest in Georgia

Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation rates and average bill

Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation reported 39,729 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,214 kWh a month on average at 14.20 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, Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation ranks 25 from the lowest price.

Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation compared with Georgia and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation14.201,214$172.32
Georgia (all utilities)14.741,077$158.70
United States17.23874$150.68

Figures cover all of Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation'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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties in Georgia, Florida. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Georgia (6 counties)

Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Ware, Wayne

Florida (2 counties)

Baker, Nassau

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Reliability

For 2025, Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 180 minutes without power per customer and 2.38 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 76 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation had about 52 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Georgia figure across its utilities was 146 minutes. One interruption lasting 76 minutes and 2.38 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 180 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. Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation 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 234 residential net-metered systems on the Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 1.9 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.

Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in Georgia, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation compared with Georgia

By residential customers, Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation ranks 17th of the 56 utilities that report homes in Georgia, with about 0.58% of the state's homes. Among 34 other cooperatives in Georgia, the median price is 14.28 cents per kWh, so Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation at 14.20 cents is about the same as its peers. At $172.32 a month, an average Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $163 a year more than the Georgia average of $158.70, and uses 137 kWh a month more. Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Georgia, for comparisons. 234 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 Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership CorporationCooperative39,72914.20
Amicalola Electric Membership CorporationCooperative51,65713.67
Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership CorporationCooperative46,90314.80
City of MariettaMunicipal36,28811.92
Habersham Electric Membership CorporationCooperative35,51913.99
Jefferson Electric Membership CorporationCooperative34,65114.59

See every one on the electric companies in Georgia page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Okefenoke Rural 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.

Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation questions

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

Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 14.20 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,214 kWh a month and an average bill of $172.32 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Georgia average was 14.74 cents.

How many customers does Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation have?

EIA reports about 39,729 residential customers for Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation in 2025.

Who regulates Okefenoke Rural 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 Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation?

For 2025, Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 180 minutes of outage per customer and 2.38 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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