Mountain Electric Coop, Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 13027|North Carolina + 1 more|Bundled
In 2024, Mountain Electric Coop, Inc's residential customers paid an average of 12.51 cents per kWh: $21 million of revenue over 171,496 MWh of sales across 15,491 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 12.51c figure is calculated
12.51c/kWh = $21,452k revenue / 171,496 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Mountain Electric Coop, Inc billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $125 before taxes.
About Mountain Electric Coop, Inc's 2024 electricity prices
Mountain Electric Coop, Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 13027. In 2024 it served 15,491 bundled residential customers in North Carolina (its largest state of 2), and its average realised residential price was 12.51 cents per kWh: $21 million of residential revenue divided by 171,496 MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Mountain Electric Coop, Inc's 2024 average prices were 13.85 cents for commercial customers (4,573 accounts).
Within North Carolina, Mountain Electric Coop, Inc ranked number 35 of 55 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (15,491) and accounted for 0.28% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 14.13 cents per kWh, so Mountain Electric Coop, Inc's customers paid 1.62 cents below the North Carolina average (-11.5%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for North Carolina is 14.74 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.
EIA's service-territory file places Mountain Electric Coop, Inc in 3 North Carolina counties: Avery, Burke, and Watauga. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Tennessee (12,539 residential customers at 12.34 cents). On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: TVA.
Mountain Electric Coop, Inc is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.
The nearest other utilities in North Carolina by service-territory centroid are New River Light & Power Co (15 miles away, 12.45 cents), Town of Erwin (TN) (22.4 miles away, 12.23 cents), City of Elizabethton (TN) (23.5 miles away, 11.82 cents), Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp (NC) (28.7 miles away, 14.59 cents), and Johnson City (TN) (29.5 miles away, 12.41 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 15,491 | 171,496 | 21,452 | 12.51 |
| Commercial | 4,573 | 98,201 | 13,598 | 13.85 |
Counties served in North Carolina (3)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
| Tennessee Bundled | 12,539 res. accounts | 12.34c | #51 of 88 |
Nearby and comparable utilities in North Carolina
- EIA utility number
- 13027
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- North Carolina
- States with retail sales
- NC, TN
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (NC, price basis)
- 15,491
- Residential accounts served (NC)
- 15,491
- All accounts, all sectors (NC)
- 20,064
- Residential price, 2024
- 12.51 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 13.85 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 171,496 MWh
- Residential revenue
- $21 million
- Rank in North Carolina by residential accounts served
- 35 of 55
- Share of North Carolina residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 0.28%
- North Carolina average, 2024
- 14.13 c/kWh
- Counties served (NC)
- 3
- NERC region
- SERC
- Balancing authority
- TVA
- Reported activities
- Distribution
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].