Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation Rates and Bills

Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation reported 30,640 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,189 kWh a month on average at 15.63 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, Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation ranks 39 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 Piedmont 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, Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 146 minutes without power per customer and 1.21 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 121 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation had about 19 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 121 minutes and 1.21 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 146 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. Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 2,199 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 511 residential net-metered systems on the Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 3.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

North Carolina has 48 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation is 21st by size and serves about 0.59% of the state's homes. Among 23 other cooperatives in North Carolina, the median price is 14.92 cents per kWh, so Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation at 15.63 cents is 0.71 cents above its peers. Over a year, the typical Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation bill runs about $476 above the state average, with monthly use 145 kWh higher. Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 511 of its residential customers use net metering, or 16.7 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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