Horry Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates in South Carolina

• Average commercial price, 202514.15¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs South Carolina average+27%state commercial average 11.18¢
• Commercial customers12,3936th largest of 28 in South Carolina
• Average use1,713 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$242a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+7.0%from 13.23¢ per kWh
• Outages101 mina year per customer · US average 124

Horry Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative serving 1 county in South Carolina. Among the 28 South Carolina utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 6th largest, with about 3.0% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Horry Electric Coop Inc.

Horry Electric Cooperative commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Horry Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers an average of 13.23¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 14.15¢, so it rose 7.0% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in South Carolina rose 9.5% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 4.4%.

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 Horry Electric Cooperative

In 2025 the average commercial price at Horry Electric Cooperative was 2.3% above the residential figure and 29% above the industrial one. 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 Horry Electric Cooperative’s commercial rates are set

Horry Electric Cooperative 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 South Carolina, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Horry Electric Cooperative

EIA counts 12,393 commercial meters at Horry Electric Cooperative in 2025, and 12,393 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.

EIA records 3 commercial net-metered generating systems at Horry Electric Cooperative in 2025, with 0.52 MW of capacity between them: about 0.2 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 Horry Electric Cooperative’s electric service?

Horry Electric Cooperative customers went without power for an average of 101 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 1.22 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 110 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Horry Electric Cooperative serves

EIA records Horry Electric Cooperative serving customers in 1 South Carolina county: Horry. 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 Santee Cooper as its balancing authority, the body that keeps supply and demand matched minute by minute across the area.

Other utilities in South Carolina

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

• Dominion Energy South Carolina (12.90¢)
• Duke Energy Carolinas (9.68¢)
• Duke Energy Progress (11.02¢)
• Santee Cooper (10.82¢)
• Berkeley Electric Cooperative (8.27¢)
• Palmetto Electric Cooperative (13.56¢)

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 Horry Electric Cooperative’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 South 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: Horry Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Horry Electric Cooperative

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Horry Electric Cooperative?

Horry Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers in South Carolina an average of 14.15¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 27% above the South Carolina commercial average of 11.18¢. 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 Horry Electric Cooperative?

About $242 a month in 2025, on average use of about 1,713 kWh a month. That is Horry Electric Cooperative’s commercial revenue divided by its 12,393 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Horry Electric Cooperative’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Horry Electric Cooperative billed commercial customers rose 7.0% between 2015 and 2025, from 13.23¢ to 14.15¢ per kWh. The South Carolina commercial average rose 9.5% over the same period.

How reliable is Horry Electric Cooperative’s electric service?

Horry Electric Cooperative customers averaged 101 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Horry Electric Cooperative use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 12,393 advanced (AMI) meters among Horry Electric Cooperative’s 12,393 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 Horry Electric Cooperative?

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 Horry Electric Cooperative’s tariff.