Tri-County EMC, NC Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation reported 22,887 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,297 kWh a month on average at 13.29 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, Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation ranks 19 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 Tri-County 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, Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation reported an average of 89 minutes without power per customer and 0.65 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 137 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation had about 39 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The North Carolina figure across its utilities was 145 minutes. One interruption lasting 137 minutes and 0.65 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 89 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. Tri-County 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 150 residential net-metered systems on the Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation grid in 2025, with 1.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation is an electric cooperative based in North Carolina.

North Carolina has 48 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation is 28th by size and serves about 0.44% of the state's homes. Among 23 other cooperatives in North Carolina, the median price is 15.10 cents per kWh, so Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation at 13.29 cents is 1.81 cents below its peers. At $172.37 a month, an average Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation home pays about $315 a year more than the North Carolina average of $146.14, and uses 253 kWh a month more. Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation lists distribution equipment in 7 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 150 of its residential customers use net metering, or 6.6 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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