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Duke Energy Carolinas (North Carolina) rates

Duke Energy Carolinas has one residential plan modelled here. A typical North Carolina home using 1,029 kWh a month pays about $163 a month.

Investor-owned 1,919,372 residential customers (EIA-861, 2024) Tariffs checked September 28, 2026

Typical all-in priceRS

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RS$163/mo

Residential plans

Plan	Type	Fixed/mo	July prices	January prices	July weekday windows
RS Residential Service	Flat	$15.35	14.4¢ all hours	14.4¢ all hours	None

Charging an EV on Duke Energy Carolinas

1,000 miles a month in a Tesla Model Y Long Range AWD (275 kWh from the wall, EPA 27.5 kWh/100 mi) at 7.2 kW, added to a typical North Carolina home’s use, on each plan’s cheapest start hour versus plugging in at 6 pm. Averaged over the year.

Plan	Best start	Charging, best start	Charging from 6 pm	Whole bill with EV
RS	Any	$40/mo	$40/mo	$203/mo

With an EV charged at its best hour, the cheapest plan overall is RS. Compare plans on your own usage.

How Duke Energy Carolinas’s plans work

RS (Residential Service). One price per kWh at every hour, all year: 14.4¢. Shifting use to other hours changes nothing on this plan; using less is the only lever. Fixed charge: $15.35 a month.

Prices on this page are all-in per kWh, before taxes: base rates, supply and every per-kWh rider in the utility’s current tariff sheets. Your bill shows them as separate lines, and riders can change between tariff revisions.

As a cross-check, Duke Energy Carolinas billed its residential customers an average of 13.94¢ per kWh in 2024 (revenue ÷ sales, EIA-861). A plan taken from URDB is shown only if its all-in price is consistent with that figure, adjusted for North Carolina’s price change since.

Sources for each plan

Plan	Effective	Seasons	Solar exports	Source and status
RS Transcribed from the utility’s tariff	September 1, 2026	Same pricing all year	Not recorded in URDB	Checked September 28, 2026 DEC NC Schedule RS, Fifty-Ninth Revised Leaf No. 11 (eff. Jan 1, 2026) · DEC NC Summary of Rider Adjustments, Sixty-Ninth Revised Leaf No. 99 (eff. Sept 1, 2026) · DEC NC Rider STS, Thirteenth Revised Leaf No. 133 (eff. July 1, 2026) · DEC NC Rider STS, First Revised Leaf No. 119 (eff. July 1, 2026) · DEC NC Rider CEPS, Eighteenth Revised Leaf No. 68 (eff. Sept 1, 2026) · DEC NC Rider EDIT-4, Third Revised Leaf No. 131 (terminated June 1, 2026) · DEC NC Rider Q-FCAR, First Revised Leaf No. 60A (eff. July 1, 2026) · DEC NC Fuel Cost Adjustment Rider, Forty-Sixth Revised Leaf No. 60 (eff. Sept 1, 2026) · Duke Energy 2025 NC rate case fact sheet (typical 1,000 kWh bill)

Plans marked “Checked” were transcribed from the utility’s current tariff and rider sheets, all charges included, and are re-checked on the date shown in each file. Other plans come from the OpenEI U.S. Utility Rate Database (CC BY 4.0) and have not yet been checked line by line against the utility’s tariff. Always confirm the current rates on your utility’s website before switching plans.

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