Average electric bill in North Carolina
A typical North Carolina household pays
$150a month · $1796 a year
That is 0% above the national average of $149, the 29th highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 1,036 kilowatt hours a month at 15.09¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — July 2025
$186
Cheapest — October 2025
$119
The dearest month costs $67 more than the cheapest — 56% higher and it is air conditioning that does it. North Carolina runs about 1,600 cooling degree days a year, so the summer bill is where any efficiency gain shows up.
Why the bill is what it is
A bill is a rate multiplied by a quantity, and in North Carolina the amount of electricity used is doing most of the work. Comparing your own bill to this figure only tells you something once you know which of the two you could actually change — the rate is largely fixed, the quantity is not.
Heating and cooling are usually the largest movable part. Whether that means a heat pump, a more efficient air conditioner, or neither depends on North Carolina's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 5,234,180 residential accounts in North Carolina, from the US Energy Information Administration. They describe the state, not your house — square footage, insulation and what you keep the thermostat at move an individual bill a long way. See the North Carolina rate page for the underlying prices.