Central Electric Membership Corp. (NC) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Central Electric Membership Corp. (NC) is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 3250. In 2024 it served 22,071 bundled residential customers in North Carolina, and its average realised residential price was 14.34 cents per kWh: $49 million of residential revenue divided by 340,189 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Central Electric Membership Corp. (NC)'s 2024 average prices were 12.49 cents for commercial customers (2,541 accounts) and 7.82 cents for industrial customers (14 accounts). Industrial customers paid 6.52 cents less per kWh than households, a 45% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within North Carolina, Central Electric Membership Corp. (NC) ranked number 29 of 55 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (22,071) and accounted for 0.55% 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 14.13 cents per kWh, so Central Electric Membership Corp. (NC)'s customers paid 0.21 cents above the North Carolina average (+1.5%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for North Carolina is 14.74 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 Central Electric Membership Corp. (NC) in 5 North Carolina counties: Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Moore, and Randolph. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: CPLE.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 15.37 cents per kWh for Central Electric Membership Corp. (NC) in North Carolina across 20,677 residential customers, 1.03 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 North Carolina by service-territory centroid are Randolph Electric Member Corp (16 miles away, 15.91 cents), Duke Energy Progress (NC) (22.1 miles away, 15.54 cents), Lumbee River Elec Member Corp (37.8 miles away, 12.81 cents), Town of Apex- (NC) (42.1 miles away, 10.52 cents), and Fayetteville Public Works Commission (42.3 miles away, 12.21 cents).