Coastal Electric Member Corp electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 20,559 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 13.94¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Georgia, 12% under the statewide average of 15.84¢.

Consumption here is high, 1,259 kilowatt-hours a month against a national average of 871. Long cooling seasons, large detached homes and electric resistance heating are the usual causes, and together they matter more to the bill than the rate does.

Owned by the customers it serves, with directors elected by members. Co-ops are frequently outside state rate regulation. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

In 2024 the average Coastal Electric Member Corp customer went 3,698 minutes without electricity across 4.24 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is far worse than typical, and figures at this level almost always reflect a major storm season rather than everyday performance. A single hurricane or ice storm can dominate the annual number.

Coastal Electric Member Corp offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 119 households were enrolled, about 0.6% of its residential base.

These plans are opt-in almost everywhere. They reward households that can move laundry, dishwashing, water heating or electric vehicle charging out of the late-afternoon peak, and they cost more than the standard rate for households that cannot. How to tell which group you are in.

240 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 1.9 megawatts. That works out to 11.7 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.