Planters Electric Member Corp Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Planters Electric Member Corp is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 14649. In 2024 it served 16,385 bundled residential customers in Georgia, and its average realised residential price was 14.53 cents per kWh: $32 million of residential revenue divided by 222,583 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Planters Electric Member Corp's 2024 average prices were 12.27 cents for commercial customers (1,097 accounts) and 15.52 cents for industrial customers (716 accounts). Unusually, industrial customers paid 0.99 cents more per kWh than households.

Within Georgia, Planters Electric Member Corp ranked number 32 of 58 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (16,385) and accounted for 0.36% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 14.08 cents per kWh, so Planters Electric Member Corp's customers paid 0.45 cents above the Georgia average (+3.2%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Georgia is 16.36 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.

EIA's service-territory file places Planters Electric Member Corp in 7 Georgia counties: Bulloch, Burke, Effingham, Emanuel, Jenkins, Richmond, and Screven. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: SOCO.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.85 cents per kWh for Planters Electric Member Corp in Georgia across 16,417 residential customers, 0.32 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in Georgia by service-territory centroid are City of Sylvania (GA) (20.4 miles away, 12.88 cents), Excelsior Electric Member Corp (28.6 miles away, 13.61 cents), Jefferson Electric Member Corp (38.8 miles away, 13.27 cents), Altamaha Electric Member Corp (46 miles away, 16.04 cents), and Canoochee Electric Member Corp (46.1 miles away, 13.98 cents).