North Carolina · Cooperative
Tri-State Electric Member Corp
15.56¢ per kWh, bundled, EIA-861 2025. Average bill $131.88 at 847.3 kWh a month, across 1,581 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: 1,581, 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
$155.60
15.56¢/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 | 12.63¢ | $100.93 | 799.1 | 1,279 |
| 2016 | 12.72¢ | $100.58 | 790.7 | 1,295 |
| 2017 | 13.02¢ | $96.31 | 739.9 | 1,323 |
| 2018 | 12.82¢ | $107.61 | 839.2 | 1,342 |
| 2019 | 13.19¢ | $105.03 | 796.3 | 1,356 |
| 2020 | 12.90¢ | $102.04 | 791.2 | 1,390 |
| 2021 | 13.15¢ | $107.42 | 816.9 | 1,429 |
| 2022 | 14.30¢ | $115.76 | 809.7 | 1,475 |
| 2023 | 14.31¢ | $112.10 | 783.1 | 1,524 |
| 2024 | 14.68¢ | $119.62 | 815.1 | 1,571 |
| 2025 | 15.56¢ | $131.88 | 847.3 | 1,581 |
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
Cherokee.
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