City of New Bern (NC) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

City of New Bern (NC) is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 13416. In 2024 it served 21,226 bundled residential customers in North Carolina, and its average realised residential price was 12.65 cents per kWh: $33 million of residential revenue divided by 260,174 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, City of New Bern (NC)'s 2024 average prices were 10.75 cents for commercial customers (3,722 accounts) and 7.93 cents for industrial customers (4 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.72 cents less per kWh than households, a 37% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within North Carolina, City of New Bern (NC) ranked number 31 of 55 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (21,226) and accounted for 0.42% 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 City of New Bern (NC)'s customers paid 1.48 cents below the North Carolina average (-10.5%). 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 City of New Bern (NC) in 2 North Carolina counties: Craven and Jones. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: CPLE.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 14.76 cents per kWh for City of New Bern (NC) in North Carolina across 21,545 residential customers, 2.11 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 Carteret-Craven El Member Corp (10.7 miles away, 12.15 cents), Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp (21.9 miles away, 13.09 cents), City of Kinston (NC) (26.2 miles away, 13.07 cents), Greenville Utilities Comm (36.8 miles away, 11.97 cents), and City of Washington (NC) (39.6 miles away, 13.01 cents).