Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation Rates and Bills

Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation reported 19,435 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,177 kWh a month on average at 15.58 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 48 North Carolina utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation ranks 38 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 Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation has distribution equipment. That covers 7 counties in 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, Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 171 minutes without power per customer and 2.17 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 79 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation had about 43 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 79 minutes and 2.17 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 171 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. Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 1 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 69 residential net-metered systems on the Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 0.6 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in North Carolina.

Of the 48 utilities listed for North Carolina, Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation is the 32nd largest by homes, at roughly 0.38% of the state total. Its price of 15.58 cents per kWh is 0.67 cents above the median of 23 other cooperatives in North Carolina (14.92 cents). At $183.35 a month, an average Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $447 a year more than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 133 kWh a month more. Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 69 of its residential customers use net metering, or 3.6 per 1,000 homes, against 12.8 for North 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 North Carolina with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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