Santee Cooper Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

Santee Cooper reported 188,962 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 959 kWh a month on average at 12.91 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, Santee Cooper ranks 5 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 Santee Cooper has distribution equipment. That covers 3 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, Santee Cooper reported an average of 41 minutes without power per customer and 0.67 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.

Santee Cooper had about 87 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 0.67 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 41 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. Santee Cooper reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 188,962 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 1,954 residential net-metered systems on the Santee Cooper grid in 2025, with 13.5 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Santee Cooper is a state-owned utility based in South Carolina.

By residential customers, Santee Cooper ranks 2nd of the 26 utilities that report homes in South Carolina, with about 7.2% of the state's homes. South Carolina has too few other state-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Santee Cooper with its type, so the state average of 15.12 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $123.85 a month, an average Santee Cooper home pays about $448 a year less than the South Carolina average of $161.21, and uses 107 kWh a month less. Santee Cooper lists distribution equipment in 3 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,954 of its residential customers use net metering, or 10.3 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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