North Carolina · Cooperative
French Broad Elec Member Corp
16.21¢ per kWh, bundled, EIA-861 2025. Average bill $130.89 at 807.6 kWh a month, across 36,049 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: 36,049, 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
$162.10
16.21¢/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 | 13.63¢ | $101.38 | 743.7 | 33,358 |
| 2016 | 13.19¢ | $97.66 | 740.3 | 33,551 |
| 2017 | 13.33¢ | $95.53 | 716.6 | 33,825 |
| 2018 | 13.65¢ | $106.83 | 782.9 | 34,052 |
| 2019 | 13.53¢ | $101.66 | 751.2 | 34,258 |
| 2020 | 12.49¢ | $95.61 | 765.3 | 34,599 |
| 2021 | 13.30¢ | $104.38 | 784.7 | 35,070 |
| 2022 | 13.81¢ | $108.27 | 784.0 | 35,438 |
| 2023 | 14.50¢ | $112.03 | 772.4 | 35,818 |
| 2024 | 14.78¢ | $114.40 | 774.0 | 36,147 |
| 2025 | 16.21¢ | $130.89 | 807.6 | 36,049 |
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
Buncombe, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey.
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