Fayetteville Public Works Commission electricity rates

It serves 75,987 residential customers in North Carolina. At 12.21¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in North Carolina, 19.1% under the statewide average of 15.09¢.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 971 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever the rate does.

Owned by the city it serves and governed by a local board rather than the state commission. No shareholder return is built into the rate. 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 Fayetteville Public Works Commission customer went 129 minutes without electricity across 1.76 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is better than the typical American utility, though the figure includes major storm days and can move sharply from one year to the next.

Fayetteville Public Works Commission offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 75,987 households were enrolled, about 100% 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.

284 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 1.73 megawatts. That works out to 3.7 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is below the national median. A low retail rate reduces what solar displaces, and export compensation set at avoided cost rather than the retail rate reduces it further. What exports are actually worth.