[ Amicalola Electric Member / GA ]
Amicalola Electric Member electricity rates in Georgia
CO-OP BOARD SETS RATES · DATA 2025
change in average rate, 2024→2025
What your bill becomes
Estimated at Amicalola Electric Member's average effective residential rate (13.67¢/kWh, EIA, all charges included). Your tariff, fees and taxes differ.
Rate history 2015–2025
| Year | ¢/kWh | Change | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11.18¢ | — | 42,453 |
| 2016 | 11.33¢ | +1.3% | 42,959 |
| 2017 | 11.64¢ | +2.7% | 43,564 |
| 2018 | 11.17¢ | −4.0% | 44,166 |
| 2019 | 11.23¢ | +0.5% | 44,909 |
| 2020 | 11.37¢ | +1.3% | 45,653 |
| 2021 | 11.21¢ | −1.4% | 46,675 |
| 2022 | 11.97¢ | +6.8% | 47,836 |
| 2023 | 12.00¢ | +0.3% | 49,088 |
| 2024 | 12.41¢ | +3.4% | 50,337 |
| 2025 | 13.67¢ | +10.2% | 51,657 |
How this compares
Serves 10 counties in Georgia: Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gordon, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens. 32 ZIP codes.
What the numbers show
Since 2015, Amicalola Electric Member's average residential rate has gone from 11.18¢ to 13.67¢ per kWh: +22.3% over 10 years, or about +2.0% a year. It rose in 8 of the 10 years we can compare, and the biggest one-year increase was +10.2% in 2025. The largest drop was −4.0% in 2018.
For a home using 1,077 kWh a month, the Georgia average, Amicalola Electric Member's 2025 rate works out to about $1,767 a year, $138 less than at Georgia's average rate of 14.74¢. Of the 58 Georgia utilities in our data with a 2025 price, it is the 35th most expensive.
Amicalola Electric Member served 42,453 homes in 2015 and 51,657 in 2025 (+21.7%), about 1% of Georgia's residential electricity customers.
Who sets Amicalola Electric Member's rates
Amicalola Electric Member is a member-owned electric cooperative. A board elected by its members sets its rates. In some states the Georgia Public Service Commission also reviews co-op rates, but most co-op rate changes do not go through a commission rate case, so watch the co-op's own member notices and board meetings.
Commission contact: Georgia Public Service Commission. How we calculate every figure on this page: methodology.
Questions
Is Amicalola Electric Member raising rates in 2026?
Amicalola Electric Member's rates are set by its member-elected board, not through a rate case at the Georgia Public Service Commission, so check its own notices for a change this year. Its average residential rate moved +10.2% from 2024 to 2025.
What does Amicalola Electric Member charge per kWh?
Amicalola Electric Member's average effective residential rate was 13.67¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA-861, revenue divided by sales, all charges included). Georgia's 2025 average was 14.74¢.
How much have Amicalola Electric Member rates gone up in five years?
+20.2% between 2020 and 2025, against +20.8% for Georgia as a whole over the latest five-year window.
How many customers does Amicalola Electric Member have in Georgia?
51,657 residential customers in 2025, across 10 counties including Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, according to the EIA-861 survey.
Where do these numbers come from?
Rates and customer counts are from the US Energy Information Administration's annual EIA-861 survey, which every US utility files. Nothing here is a utility bill; use it to understand the direction and size of changes.
Sources
- EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, 2015–2025 (released 2026-10-07)
- EIA-861M monthly state averages through Jul 2026
- NREL utility-by-ZIP lookup (2024)
