Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 14175. In 2024 it served 17,672 bundled residential customers in South Carolina, and its average realised residential price was 18.51 cents per kWh: $43 million of residential revenue divided by 232,956 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC)'s 2024 average prices were 16.06 cents for commercial customers (521 accounts) and 11.17 cents for industrial customers (273 accounts). Industrial customers paid 7.34 cents less per kWh than households, a 40% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within South Carolina, Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) ranked number 22 of 29 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (17,672) and accounted for 0.72% 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 Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC)'s customers paid 4.28 cents above the South Carolina average (+30.1%). 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 Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) in 6 South Carolina counties: Calhoun, Kershaw, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland, and Sumter. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: SC.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 19.94 cents per kWh for Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) in South Carolina across 17,670 residential customers, 1.43 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 Black River Electric Coop, Inc (SC) (26.3 miles away, 13.47 cents), City of Orangeburg (SC) (30.8 miles away, 15.49 cents), Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc (36.9 miles away, 14.88 cents), Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc (40.4 miles away, 14.59 cents), and Fairfield Electric Coop, Inc (43.3 miles away, 14.35 cents).