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

Roanoke Electric Member Corp is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 16101. In 2024 it served 12,049 bundled residential customers in North Carolina, and its average realised residential price was 21.14 cents per kWh: $35 million of residential revenue divided by 164,384 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Roanoke Electric Member Corp's 2024 average prices were 18.18 cents for commercial customers (2,059 accounts) and 11.03 cents for industrial customers (7 accounts). Industrial customers paid 10.11 cents less per kWh than households, a 48% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within North Carolina, Roanoke Electric Member Corp ranked number 38 of 55 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (12,049) and accounted for 0.27% 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 Roanoke Electric Member Corp's customers paid 7.01 cents above the North Carolina average (+49.6%). 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 Roanoke Electric Member Corp in 7 North Carolina counties: Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Perquimans. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported buying transmission and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 20.70 cents per kWh for Roanoke Electric Member Corp in North Carolina across 12,045 residential customers, 0.44 cents lower 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 Albemarle Electric Member Corp (38 miles away, 14.47 cents), City of Elizabeth City (NC) (38.8 miles away, 11.76 cents), Edgecombe-Martin County E M C (38.9 miles away, 16.06 cents), Town of Tarboro (NC) (43.3 miles away, 13.56 cents), and City of Washington (NC) (43.9 miles away, 13.01 cents).