South Carolina Public Service Authority Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
State|EIA utility 17543|South Carolina|Bundled
In 2024, South Carolina Public Service Authority's residential customers paid an average of 11.38 cents per kWh: $239 million of revenue over 2.10 million MWh of sales across 185,529 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 11.38c figure is calculated
11.38c/kWh = $239,381k revenue / 2,103,044 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything South Carolina Public Service Authority 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 $114 before taxes.
About South Carolina Public Service Authority's 2024 electricity prices
South Carolina Public Service Authority is a state-owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 17543. In 2024 it served 185,529 bundled residential customers in South Carolina, and its average realised residential price was 11.38 cents per kWh: $239 million of residential revenue divided by 2.10 million MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, South Carolina Public Service Authority's 2024 average prices were 9.43 cents for commercial customers (30,938 accounts) and 5.08 cents for industrial customers (27 accounts). Industrial customers paid 6.30 cents less per kWh than households, a 55% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.
Within South Carolina, South Carolina Public Service Authority ranked number 3 of 29 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (185,529) and accounted for 6.46% 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 South Carolina Public Service Authority's customers paid 2.85 cents below the South Carolina average (-20.0%). 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 South Carolina Public Service Authority in 3 South Carolina counties: Berkeley, Georgetown, and Horry. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported generation, transmission, buying transmission, distribution, wholesale marketing, and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: SC.
South Carolina Public Service Authority 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 South Carolina by service-territory centroid are Santee Electric Coop, Inc (22.3 miles away, 14.74 cents), Horry Electric Coop Inc (37 miles away, 13.23 cents), Berkeley Electric Coop Inc (52 miles away, 14.93 cents), MPD Electric Cooperative (59.8 miles away, 10.94 cents), and Black River Electric Coop, Inc (SC) (65 miles away, 13.47 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 185,529 | 2,103,044 | 239,381 | 11.38 |
| Commercial | 30,938 | 1,989,136 | 187,643 | 9.43 |
| Industrial | 27 | 5,994,535 | 304,622 | 5.08 |
Counties served in South Carolina (3)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
Nearby and comparable utilities in South Carolina
- EIA utility number
- 17543
- Ownership type
- State
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- South Carolina
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (SC, price basis)
- 185,529
- Residential accounts served (SC)
- 185,529
- All accounts, all sectors (SC)
- 216,494
- Residential price, 2024
- 11.38 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 9.43 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 5.08 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 2.10 million MWh
- Residential revenue
- $239 million
- Rank in South Carolina by residential accounts served
- 3 of 29
- Share of South Carolina residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 6.46%
- South Carolina average, 2024
- 14.23 c/kWh
- Counties served (SC)
- 3
- NERC region
- SERC
- Balancing authority
- SC
- Reported activities
- Generation, Transmission, Buying Transmission, Distribution, Wholesale Marketing, Bundled
- 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].