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Easley Combined Utility System Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Municipal|EIA utility 6709|South Carolina|Bundled

In 2024, Easley Combined Utility System's residential customers paid an average of 12.81 cents per kWh: $24 million of revenue over 184,510 MWh of sales across 15,772 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.

Residential 2024
12.81¢
per kWh, bundled
vs SC avg 2024
-10.0%
state 14.23c
Bundled res. customers
15,772
17,414 all sectors
Rank in SC by res. accounts
#23 of 29
0.6% of state residential MWh

How the 12.81c figure is calculated

12.81c/kWh = $23,635k revenue / 184,510 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Easley Combined Utility System 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 $128 before taxes.

About Easley Combined Utility System's 2024 electricity prices

Easley Combined Utility System is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 6709. In 2024 it served 15,772 bundled residential customers in South Carolina, and its average realised residential price was 12.81 cents per kWh: $24 million of residential revenue divided by 184,510 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Easley Combined Utility System's 2024 average prices were 12.18 cents for commercial customers (1,641 accounts) and 7.00 cents for industrial customers (1 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.81 cents less per kWh than households, a 45% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within South Carolina, Easley Combined Utility System ranked number 23 of 29 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (15,772) and accounted for 0.57% 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 14.23 cents per kWh, so Easley Combined Utility System's customers paid 1.42 cents below the South Carolina average (-10.0%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for South Carolina is 15.55 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 Easley Combined Utility System in 1 South Carolina county: Pickens. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported generation, distribution, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: DUK.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 12.81 cents per kWh for Easley Combined Utility System in South Carolina across 16,019 residential customers, 0.00 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 South Carolina by service-territory centroid are Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc (SC) (11.3 miles away, 18.94 cents), Greer Commission of Public Wks (30.7 miles away, 11.80 cents), Haywood Electric Member Corp (32.2 miles away, 16.60 cents), Laurens Electric Coop, Inc (41.5 miles away, 14.66 cents), and Broad River Electric Coop, Inc (58.1 miles away, 15.91 cents).

2024 sales by sector in South Carolina (bundled service)
SectorCustomersSales (MWh)Revenue ($k)Avg c/kWh
Residential15,772184,51023,63512.81
Commercial1,641117,28014,28212.18
Industrial13,1542217.00

Counties served in South Carolina (1)

Pickens

From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.

2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)

Residential price in South Carolina: 12.81c/kWh (+0.00c vs 2024 final), 16,019 residential customers; commercial 12.36c; industrial 7.55c. Published 4 August 2026. EIA marks this file "not fully edited, use with caution"; the 2024 final figures above remain the reference.

Nearby and comparable utilities in South Carolina

Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc (SC)Cooperative, 11.3 mi between territory centroids
67,553 res. accounts 18.94c
Greer Commission of Public WksMunicipal, 30.7 mi between territory centroids
24,893 res. accounts 11.80c
Haywood Electric Member CorpCooperative, 32.2 mi between territory centroids
29,520 res. accounts 16.60c
Laurens Electric Coop, IncCooperative, 41.5 mi between territory centroids
58,438 res. accounts 14.66c
Broad River Electric Coop, IncCooperative, 58.1 mi between territory centroids
23,622 res. accounts 15.91c
EIA-861 facts, 2024
EIA utility number
6709
Ownership type
Municipal
Data year
2024 final (EIA-861)
Primary state
South Carolina
Service type
Bundled (Part A)
Bundled residential customers (SC, price basis)
15,772
Residential accounts served (SC)
15,772
All accounts, all sectors (SC)
17,414
Residential price, 2024
12.81 c/kWh
Commercial price, 2024
12.18 c/kWh
Industrial price, 2024
7.00 c/kWh
Residential sales
184,510 MWh
Residential revenue
$24 million
Rank in South Carolina by residential accounts served
23 of 29
Share of South Carolina residential sales (MWh, not customers)
0.57%
South Carolina average, 2024
14.23 c/kWh
Counties served (SC)
1
NERC region
SERC
Balancing authority
DUK
Reported activities
Generation, Distribution, Bundled
2025 early release (preliminary)
12.81 c/kWh
Change vs 2024 final
+0.00 c/kWh
Registry status
Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
South Carolina today
Residential (June 2026)15.55c
Commercial11.62c
Industrial7.55c
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Energy cost at 12.81c
500 kWh$64.05
750 kWh$96.07
1,000 kWh$128.10
1,500 kWh$192.15

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Source and method

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].