Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation (BEMC) commercial electricity rates in North Carolina

• Average commercial price, 202511.52¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs North Carolina average+13%state commercial average 10.22¢
• Commercial customers10,2395th largest of 49 in North Carolina
• Average use3,311 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$381a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+13%from 10.16¢ per kWh
• Outages36 mina year per customer · US average 124

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation (BEMC) is an electric cooperative serving 4 counties in North Carolina. Among the 49 North Carolina utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 5th largest, with about 1.4% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Brunswick Electric Member Corp.

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation billed its commercial customers an average of 10.16¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 11.52¢, so it rose 13% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in North Carolina rose 17% over the same period. The highest year was 2024, at 11.94¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it fell 3.5%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation

In 2025 the average commercial price at Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation was 14% below the residential figure. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s commercial rates are set

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation is a cooperative, owned by the members it serves. Its board sets its rates, and in some states the state commission reviews them as well. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. There is no competitive supply market for ordinary commercial accounts in North Carolina, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation

EIA counts 10,238 commercial meters at Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation in 2025, and 10,238 of them (100%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, 10,239 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 100% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing and variable peak pricing.

EIA records 14 commercial net-metered generating systems at Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation in 2025, with 0.55 MW of capacity between them: about 1.4 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s electric service?

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation customers went without power for an average of 36 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.60 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 41 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation serves

EIA records Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation serving customers in 4 North Carolina counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Robeson. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists Duke Energy Progress East as its balancing authority, the body that keeps supply and demand matched minute by minute across the area.

Other utilities in North Carolina

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The North Carolina page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Duke Energy Carolinas (9.25¢)
• Duke Energy Progress (11.01¢)
• EnergyUnited (9.84¢)
• Dominion Energy North Carolina (10.63¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The North Carolina page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation?

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation billed its commercial customers in North Carolina an average of 11.52¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 13% above the North Carolina commercial average of 10.22¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation?

About $381 a month in 2025, on average use of about 3,311 kWh a month. That is Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s commercial revenue divided by its 10,239 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation billed commercial customers rose 13% between 2015 and 2025, from 10.16¢ to 11.52¢ per kWh. The North Carolina commercial average rose 17% over the same period.

How reliable is Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s electric service?

Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation customers averaged 36 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 10,238 advanced (AMI) meters among Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s 10,238 commercial meters in 2025, which is 100%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation’s tariff.