York Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

York Electric Cooperative reported 66,385 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,084 kWh a month on average at 13.68 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, York Electric Cooperative ranks 7 from the lowest price.

Figures cover all of York Electric Cooperative'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.

EIA lists the counties where York Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 6 counties in South Carolina, 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, York Electric Cooperative reported an average of 61 minutes without power per customer and 0.49 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 123 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

York Electric Cooperative had about 67 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The South Carolina figure across its utilities was 103 minutes. One interruption lasting 123 minutes and 0.49 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 61 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. York Electric Cooperative 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 1,122 residential net-metered systems on the York Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 8.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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.

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York Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in South Carolina, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

South Carolina has 26 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. York Electric Cooperative is 7th by size and serves about 2.5% of the state's homes. Its price of 13.68 cents per kWh is 2.68 cents below the median of 16 other cooperatives in South Carolina (16.36 cents). York Electric Cooperative reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, South Carolina, for comparisons. 1,122 of its residential customers use net metering, or 16.9 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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