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Randolph Electric Member Corp rate plans
4 residential plans are currently open to new customers. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.
Looking for when the expensive hours are? Randolph Electric Member’s peak hours, plan by plan →
What does Randolph Electric Member cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,920 a year on the cheapest of the 4 plans we can price here — Residential A28EE - SINGLE-PHASE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME SERVICE — and $2,309 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $1,185 | Residential A28EE - SINGLE-PHASE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME SERVICE | $1,380 |
| 1,000 kWh | $1,920 | Residential A28EE - SINGLE-PHASE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME SERVICE | $2,309 |
| 2,000 kWh | $3,360 | Residential A28EE - SINGLE-PHASE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME SERVICE | $4,168 |
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.
How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan Randolph Electric Member Corp files, and the bill lands anywhere between $1,608 and $1,914 a year. That $306 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 A28 - SINGLE-PHASE SERVICE, comes to about $1,653. The cheapest option here, Residential A28EE - SINGLE-PHASE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME SERVICE, comes to $1,608 — a gap of about $45 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 4 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.
How Randolph Electric Member 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 Randolph Electric Member comes in 6th cheapest at about $1,653 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 $1,067 here against a state median of $920, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $2,116 against $2,115. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 17.5¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Inside Randolph Electric Member itself, the gap between its cheapest and dearest plan for that house is $306 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.
That adds up to 9,680 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$190a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Residential A28EE - SINGLE-PHASE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME SERVICE — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| Residential A28EE - SINGLE-PHASE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME SERVICEThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October. | $1,631 | — |
| Residential A25 - Renewable Purchased Power Rider (RPP)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October. | $1,677 | +$46 |
| Residential A28 - SINGLE-PHASE SERVICEThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October. | $1,677 | +$46 |
| Residential A28TOU - SINGLE-PHASE TIME OF USE SERVICEPeak hits 6am–8am in Nov–Apr, 3pm–6pm in May–Oct — every day. | $1,820 | +$190 |
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
- 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.
- Residential A25 - Renewable Purchased Power Rider (RPP)flat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October.
7.4–13.0¢ - Residential A28 - SINGLE-PHASE SERVICEflat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October.
7.4–13.0¢ - Residential A28EE - SINGLE-PHASE ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME SERVICEflat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–October.
7.2–12.5¢ - Residential A28TOU - SINGLE-PHASE TIME OF USE SERVICEtime-of-use
Peak hits 6am–8am in Nov–Apr, 3pm–6pm in May–Oct — every day.
7.3–60.2¢