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Berkeley Electric Coop Inc rate plans
1 residential plans are currently open to new customers. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.
What does Berkeley Electric Coop cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,493 a year on the cheapest of the 1 plans we can price here — Residential Time of Day — and $1,493 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $1,020 | Residential Time of Day | $1,020 |
| 1,000 kWh | $1,493 | Residential Time of Day | $1,493 |
| 2,000 kWh | $2,439 | Residential Time of Day | $2,439 |
The same plan is cheapest at every level of use here, so the answer does not turn on how much you use. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.
What does Berkeley Electric Coop Inc's residential rate cost?
Berkeley Electric Coop Inc files a single residential tariff, so there is no plan to choose between — everyone served here is on the same terms. That makes this page short on comparison and long on one question instead: what does that tariff actually do to a bill?
Priced hour by hour across a full year, a small apartment on this tariff comes to about $931 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $1,292 — an effective 19.1¢ and 13.7¢ per kilowatt-hour once the fixed charge is spread across everything used.
With one plan and no hourly pricing, the only lever left is using less. Moving laundry or car charging to the middle of the night changes nothing here, which is worth knowing before you rearrange your evenings for no reason.
Expect the bill to swing with the weather rather than with anything you decide: the same house costs around $133 in July and $89 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.
How Berkeley Electric Coop compares across South Carolina
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 4 South Carolina utilities we cover, and Berkeley Electric Coop is the cheapest of the lot at about $1,292 a year; the state median is $1,667. The dearest, Dominion Energy South Carolina, charges $1,794 for identical use — a gap set by the address, not by anything either household did.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $931 here against a state median of $985, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $1,580 against $2,081. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 13.7¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Every South Carolina utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
Before you switch anything
- What is a time-of-use electricity rate?
The same kilowatt-hour, priced differently depending on when you use it.
- Should you switch to a time-of-use electricity plan?
A wide peak-to-off-peak gap is a lever, not a saving. Levers need something to move.
- How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong
Six things that break a comparison, and the order to check them in.
Every plan, in detail
Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.