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Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) rate plans

3 residential plans are currently open to new customers that we can price side by side. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.

Looking for when the expensive hours are? Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp’s peak hours, plan by plan →

What does Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp cost at a normal month’s usage?

A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,676 a year on the cheapest of the 5 plans we can price here — Net Metering Residential - Single Phase — and $2,258 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.

Annual cost at Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp by monthly usage
A month of	Cheapest, a year	On which plan	Priciest
500 kWh	$1,028	Residential All Electric - Single Phase	$1,344
1,000 kWh	$1,676	Net Metering Residential - Single Phase	$2,258
2,000 kWh	$2,849	Net Metering Residential - Single Phase	$4,087

The cheapest plan here changes with how much you use. That happens where tiers reward a small household and a big fixed charge rewards a large one — so the right answer depends on your own bill, not on an average. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.

How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?

Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) files, and the bill lands anywhere between $1,412 and $1,869 a year. That $458 spread is not a difference in electricity — it is the same kilowatt-hours, from the same wires, priced under different rules. Nobody sends you a letter when you are on the wrong side of it.

The plan most households land on by default, Residential - Single Phase, comes to about $1,414. The cheapest option here, Residential All Electric - Single Phase, comes to $1,412 — a gap of about $2 a year for a household that never changed a single habit. Whether you can actually capture that depends on when you use power, which is what the calculator below is for.

1 of these 3 plans price by the hour. Those are the ones where moving laundry, dishes, or car charging into the cheap window changes the bill; on the rest, the clock is irrelevant and only the total matters. Which camp you belong in is the first question worth settling, because it decides whether shifting your day is worth anything at all.

Watch the fixed charges too. Across these plans they run from $360 to $429 a year before a single kilowatt-hour is counted. For a small household that difference alone can outweigh the per-kWh price, which is why comparing cents per kilowatt-hour on its own quietly misleads.

How Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp compares across North Carolina

Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 9 North Carolina utilities we cover, and Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp comes in 3rd cheapest at about $1,414 a year; the state median is $1,574. The range runs from $1,143 at City of Concord to $1,945 at Roanoke Electric Member, and since the utility is set by the address, the part of that gap you can act on is the plan, not the company.

The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $901 here against a state median of $920, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $1,819 against $2,115. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 15.0¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.

Inside Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp itself, the gap between its cheapest and dearest plan for that house is $458 a year — less than the $802 between North Carolina's cheapest and dearest utilities. Here the address decides most of the bill; the plan decides the rest.

Every North Carolina utility we cover, priced for the same three households →

Which plan would cost you least?

No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.

Start from a household like yours

Then correct anything below that doesn’t match.

A typical monthly bill

$a month

A bill that size works out to about 975 kWh a month on Residential - Single Phase. If your bill shows a different number of kWh, switch to and use theirs — it is the more accurate of the two.

What else runs on electricity

Electric carcharged at home

Electric water heaterincluding heat pump

Central air conditioningsummer only

Electric heatheat pump or resistance

That adds up to 11,871 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.

Same usage, different plan

$470a year

That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Net Metering Residential - Single Phase — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.

Plan	Per year	Vs best
Net Metering Residential - Single PhaseThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October.	$1,659	—
Residential All Electric - Single PhaseThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October.	$1,669	+$10
Residential - Single PhaseThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October.	$1,679	+$20
Net Billing Residential - Single PhaseThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October.	$1,714	+$55
Residential TOU Pilot - Single PhasePeak hits noon–6pm every day, all year.	$2,129	+$470

An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.

Before you switch anything

Every plan, in detail

Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.