Residential All Electric Service (with Purchased Power Rider) Single Phase
When does peak hit on Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC)’s Residential All Electric Service? The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October.
- peak13.60¢
- off-peak13.01¢
What does Residential All Electric Service cost a year?
| Household | Uses | A month | Per year | Works out to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment One or two people, no central air, no electric heat | 4,866 kWh | $96 | $1,149 | 23.6¢ / kWh |
| Family home Three or four people with central air conditioning | 9,453 kWh | $147 | $1,762 | 18.6¢ / kWh |
| Home with an EV Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight | 13,103 kWh | $187 | $2,245 | 17.1¢ / kWh |
Estimates, not quotes. We run three made-up but realistic households through this tariff hour by hour for a full year — including the way air conditioning loads the afternoon and an EV loads the small hours. Your own bill depends on when you actually use electricity, which is exactly the thing a per-kWh number hides.
What you actually pay
| Period | Rate | Applies when |
|---|---|---|
| peak | 13.60¢ | midnight–midnight, June–October |
| off-peak | 13.01¢ up to 1000 kWh12.29¢ | midnight–midnight, November–May |
Plus a fixed charge of $42 per month.
Should you be on Residential All Electric Service?
The hour of day does not change what you pay here — the month does. Running the same house through the full year, July costs about $191 and February about $120. That $72 swing is part rate and part weather, and it is the reason a budget built on your spring bill will break in July.
Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $504 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 44% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 22%. Fixed charges are invisible in a cents-per-kWh comparison and they punish small users hardest — if you use very little electricity, the headline rate is the least important number on this page.
How it compares to Central Electric Membership Corp.’s other plans
Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 2nd cheapest of 2. The cheapest option, Residential All Electric Service Single Phase, would run about $96 a year less.
Against Residential All Electric Service Single Phase, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $96 more per year (6%). We infer the default from the tariff structure rather than a flag in the data, so confirm it against your own bill before you switch.
Other Central Electric Membership Corp. plans
Who can be on Central Electric Membership Corp.’s Residential All Electric Service (with Purchased Power Rider) Single Phase?
Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff Central Electric Membership Corp. filed. This is what that document says:
This Rider is available on a voluntary basis in conjunction with any of the Cooperative’s Residential All-Electric Service, Small Commercial Service and Medium General Service rate schedules for a Consumer with a consumer-owned renewable generator connected on the load side of the Cooperative’s transformer serving the consumer’s facility. Under this Rider, the entire output of the consumer’s renewable generator shall be purchased by the Cooperative at the rate shown below and cannot be used to offset a portion of the consumer’s normal load requirements. The system must be less than 25 kW DC, meet UL 1741 standards, be in compliance with Section 690 of the NEC and IEEE 929, and operated in accordance with the rules of the Cooperative. The provisions of the Schedule with which this Rider is used are modified only as shown herein.
Shortened — the clause runs longer in the filing. Quoted from the filed tariff. Your utility decides eligibility, not us; check with them before you switch.
If this is new to you
- Tiered billing for electricity: why the last kWh costs more
A cheap allowance, then a cliff. Where the cliff sits is the whole game.
- 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.
- Why is my electric bill so high in summer?
Usually three causes at once, and only one of them is your air conditioner.
- Why is my electric bill so high? Seven causes, in the order to check them
Seven causes, ranked by how often they are the answer. Only two are about using more.
Where this comes from
- Effective
- 2025-04-01
the date this tariff took effect
- Covers
- delivery + supply
the ZIP-code service map lists this territory as bundled, so the utility sells delivery and supply together
- Enrollment
- open to new customers
Tariff document: https://files.cemcpower.com/files/1/2025/rates/Central_Rates_April_2025%20(2).pdf