North Carolina · Cooperative
Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC)
14.92¢ per kWh, bundled, EIA-861 2025. Average bill $134.77 at 903.5 kWh a month, across 72,320 customers on that row.
North Carolina averaged 14.00¢/kWh and $146.14 a month. The United States averaged 17.23¢/kWh and $150.68. State and national figures come from EIA's Average Bill file.
Revenue divided by sales, EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2025, released October 7, 2026. Texas wires utilities come from the Delivery Companies file. The price and bill use bundled service. Customer count: 72,320, the largest residential count across service types.
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The figure below is this utility's 2025 EIA residential average.
2025 EIA average
$149.20
14.92¢/kWh × 1,000 kWh. Bundled residential average, EIA-861 2025. The customer charge is already folded into this average, so it stands beside a tariff total rather than being added to it.
Annual history
| Year | ¢/kWh | Avg. bill | Avg. kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12.50¢ | $106.59 | 852.6 | 67,126 |
| 2016 | 11.14¢ | $97.52 | 875.5 | 67,458 |
| 2017 | 12.78¢ | $107.21 | 838.6 | 67,829 |
| 2018 | 12.68¢ | $115.41 | 910.1 | 68,144 |
| 2019 | 11.90¢ | $104.13 | 875.4 | 68,558 |
| 2020 | 12.86¢ | $114.00 | 886.4 | 69,179 |
| 2021 | 12.62¢ | $110.28 | 873.8 | 69,741 |
| 2022 | 13.08¢ | $119.32 | 912.4 | 70,401 |
| 2023 | 14.66¢ | $123.59 | 842.8 | 71,216 |
| 2024 | 14.59¢ | $126.74 | 868.9 | 71,926 |
| 2025 | 14.92¢ | $134.77 | 903.5 | 72,320 |
EIA-861, 2015–2025, using the same service type as the 2025 figure. A blank year means that service was not in the file.
Counties
Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell, Watauga, Wilkes.
EIA-861 Service Territory, 2025. A listed county is the county EIA recorded. It does not mean every address in the county is served. Open this utility in the bill calculator · Rate history tool