South Carolina · Investor Owned · investor

Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc Electricity Rates

Average residential price, customers served and derived annual usage from EIA Form 861, 2024 release.

14.59¢
Avg residential price / kWh
696.4K
Residential customers
+3.0%
vs South Carolina average
$1,807
Implied avg annual bill

Among 194 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc ranks #102 by average cents per kWh and #42 by residential customers. Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc charged an average of 14.59¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - close to the South Carolina average and below the Form 861 US customer-weighted average.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count. Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc is investor owned - a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Its reported average residential price is close to the South Carolina customer-weighted average (+3.0%). Its customers used above the national residential norm at about 12,388 kWh a year each.

  • San Diego Gas & Electric Co 43.63¢ · customers rank #90
  • Florida Power & Light Co 5,236,277 customers · price rank #122

Highest average rate is not the most customers

Residential customers for the average-rate #1 and customers #1 utilities among 194 with 100,000 or more residential customers

residential customers
  • FL size
    5,236,277
  • CA rate
    307,982

What this shows San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey, latest release. Average cents per kWh and customer counts from the same rows; no tariff or bill is implied. As of 2024

EIA Form 861 utility filing desk

Release SC-2024 · Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc NEAR STATE

Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc · Form 861 2024 · NEAR STATE

  • RATE 14.59¢/kWh
  • RANK #15/31
  • VS-ST +3.0%
  • VS-US -14.7%
  • CUST 696k
  • BILL $1,807
  • OWN IOU
  • PHOTO TX 0.02¢
  • BOOK 42/194

Nearest Form 861 price peer: US Retailers, LLC (TX) (+0.02¢ gap)

EIA Form 861 residential filing stamps for this utility record. Read with this utility → · South Carolina rates

Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc in the Form 861 price neighbourhood

Average residential ¢/kWh among this utility and nearest indexable peers

¢/kWh
  • NV
    15
  • this util
    15
  • TX
    15
  • WA
    15
  • FL
    15

What this shows Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc reports 14.59¢/kWh, corpus customer-rank 42 of 194.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey As of 2024
F45/100

RateWatt cost context

How Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc compares on reported cost context

A weighted comparison, not a tariff quote, reliability grade, service-quality score, or recommendation. Lower price and lower implied annual bill score better against reporting utilities in South Carolina; the state generation context is shown separately.

Price against state peers
53/100

14.59¢/kWh · median 14.66¢/kWh

Implied annual bill against state peers
57/100

$1,807/yr · median $1,873/yr

State renewable generation context
6/100

6.2% · median 22.8%

Weights: 50% price, 30% implied annual bill, 20% state renewable-generation context. Unreported inputs are excluded and the remaining weights are redistributed. Price and bill use EIA Form 861 (2024); generation context uses EIA state generation data (2025) and is not attributed to this provider.

Rate comparison

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 31 utilities reporting residential rates in South Carolina, Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc comes 15th of 31. The state's range runs from Greenwood CPW at 9.04¢ to Sunnova at 23.13¢, so where a household sits inside South Carolina depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 3 other investor owned utilities reporting in South Carolina, whose customer-weighted average is 14.16¢, Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc is close to its own ownership class within the state (+3.0%).

State price distribution

Where Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc sits among South Carolina utilities

2024 average residential price across the 31 utilities reporting a rate in South Carolina

14.59¢/kWh Top 49% most affordable More affordable than 53% of 30 other utilities

Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc

average residential price, equal-width bands

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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc 14.59¢ -
South Carolina (customer-weighted, 31 utilities) 14.17¢ +3.0%
US Form 861 customer-weighted average (1.5K utilities) 17.11¢ -14.7%
Investor Owned customer-weighted US avg (183 utilities) 18.37¢ -20.6%

Rate against consumption: South Carolina utilities

Each dot is one of the 31 South Carolina utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc is highlighted. In South Carolina the cheapest rate and the smallest implied annual bill happen to belong to the same utility, Greenwood CPW; across the country they usually do not. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 31 entities by Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) (X) and Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Costly rate, heavy useCheaper rate, heavy useCostly rate, light useCheaper rate, light use 050100150 050100150 Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use)
Each dot is one of the 31 South Carolina utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc is highlighted. In South Carolina the cheapest rate and the smallest implied annual bill happen to belong to the same utility, Greenwood CPW; across the country they usually do not.

Territory and usage

Scale and consumption

Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc reported 696.4K residential customers, ranking 1st of 31 utilities in South Carolina by customers served and covering 27.7% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 12,388 kWh per customer per year - -2.6% against the South Carolina median of 12,722 kWh , implying a typical annual bill near $1,807.

State peers

Every utility reporting in South Carolina

All 31 utilities reporting bundled residential service in South Carolina, largest first, with Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

Residential utilities in South Carolina, 2024, ranked by customers served
Utility Ownership Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc (this page) Investor Owned 696.4K 14.59¢
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Investor Owned 568.6K 13.99¢
South Carolina Public Service Authority State 185.5K 11.38¢
Duke Energy Progress - (NC) Investor Owned 143.7K 14.88¢
Berkeley Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 115.1K 14.93¢
Horry Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 86.7K 13.23¢
Palmetto Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 68.3K 12.79¢
Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) Cooperative 67.6K 18.94¢
York Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 65.2K 12.65¢
Laurens Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 58.4K 14.66¢
Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 56.5K 14.88¢
Aiken Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 49.5K 15.53¢
City of Rock Hill - (SC) Municipal 36.5K 12.55¢
Santee Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 35.2K 14.74¢
Fairfield Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 32.4K 14.35¢
MPD Electric Cooperative Cooperative 31.9K 10.94¢
Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) Cooperative 30.6K 13.47¢
Greer Commission of Public Wks Municipal 24.9K 11.80¢
Broad River Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 23.1K 15.91¢
Lynches River Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 21.4K 15.71¢
City of Orangeburg - (SC) Municipal 20.6K 15.49¢
Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) Cooperative 17.7K 18.51¢
Easley Combined Utility System Municipal 15.8K 12.81¢
Edisto Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 15.4K 16.40¢
Newberry Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 13.0K 16.32¢
Greenwood CPW Municipal 11.8K 9.04¢
Sunrun Inc. Behind the Meter 7.4K 17.13¢
City of Gaffney - (SC) Municipal 6.3K 12.39¢
Lockhart Power Co Investor Owned 5.0K 13.42¢
Sunnova Behind the Meter 298 23.13¢
Haywood Electric Member Corp Cooperative 9 18.97¢

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in South Carolina.

Ownership class peers

Investor Owned utilities with similar residential prices

Beyond South Carolina, these indexable investor owned utilities report the closest residential averages to Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc in the same Form 861 release. Peer sets differ by ownership class and price, not a shared national list.

Same-ownership utilities outside South Carolina nearest in residential price
Utility State Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Puget Sound Energy Inc Washington 1.1M 14.63¢
Sierra Pacific Power Co Nevada 330.9K 14.52¢
Tampa Electric Co Florida 757.3K 14.67¢
Mississippi Power Co Mississippi 157.4K 14.47¢
Evergy Kansas Central, Inc Kansas 341.8K 14.29¢

FAQ

Common questions about Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc rates

How much does Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc charge per kWh?
Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc reported an average residential price of 14.59¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.
Is Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc expensive compared with the rest of South Carolina?
Its average residential price is close to the South Carolina customer-weighted average of 14.17¢ per kWh, a difference of +3.0%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 31 utilities reporting residential service in South Carolina.
What is the average electricity bill for Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc customers?
Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 12,388 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,807 a year, or about $151 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
Who owns Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc?
EIA classifies Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc as Investor Owned, a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Nationally, the customer-weighted average across Investor Owned utilities was 18.37¢ per kWh in the 2024 Form 861 release.

Limitations

What this page does and does not tell you

  • An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
  • Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology and comparing utility costs across states .

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.

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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Average price, customers and sales are reported by EIA Form 861 (2024). Per-customer annual usage, the implied annual bill, the customer-weighted state average, the Form 861 US customer-weighted average, the ownership-class customer-weighted average, and every percentage difference are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns, never the separate EIA retail-sales statewide series. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.