12.69¢
per kWh, 2025
[ City of Greeneville / TN ]
City of Greeneville electricity rates in Tennessee
CITY SETS RATES · DATA 2025
change in average rate, 2024→2025
+6.6%
vs 2024
32,686
residential customers
+24.5%
since 2020
What your bill becomes
Bill today
No change on file
Difference / month · / year
Estimated at City of Greeneville's average effective residential rate (12.69¢/kWh, EIA, all charges included). Your tariff, fees and taxes differ.
Rate history 2015–2025
| Year | ¢/kWh | Change | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9.76¢ | — | 30,764 |
| 2016 | 10.03¢ | +2.8% | 30,850 |
| 2017 | 10.36¢ | +3.3% | 30,939 |
| 2018 | 10.27¢ | −0.9% | 30,989 |
| 2019 | 10.38¢ | +1.1% | 31,068 |
| 2020 | 10.19¢ | −1.8% | 31,217 |
| 2021 | 10.45¢ | +2.5% | 31,669 |
| 2022 | 11.83¢ | +13.2% | 31,905 |
| 2023 | 11.94¢ | +0.9% | 32,244 |
| 2024 | 11.90¢ | −0.3% | 32,388 |
| 2025 | 12.69¢ | +6.6% | 32,686 |
How this compares
13.22¢
Tennessee average, 2025
−4.0%
City of Greeneville vs TN 2025 average
−26.4%
vs US 2025 average
#57
priciest in TN
Serves 1 county in Tennessee: Greene. 19 ZIP codes.
What the numbers show
Since 2015, City of Greeneville's average residential rate has gone from 9.76¢ to 12.69¢ per kWh: +30.0% over 10 years, or about +2.7% a year. It rose in 7 of the 10 years we can compare, and the biggest one-year increase was +13.2% in 2022. The largest drop was −1.8% in 2020.
For a home using 1,180 kWh a month, the Tennessee average, City of Greeneville's 2025 rate works out to about $1,797 a year, $75 less than at Tennessee's average rate of 13.22¢. Of the 87 Tennessee utilities in our data with a 2025 price, it is the 57th most expensive.
City of Greeneville served 30,764 homes in 2015 and 32,686 in 2025 (+6.3%), about 1% of Tennessee's residential electricity customers.
Who sets City of Greeneville's rates
City of Greeneville is a municipal utility owned by the local government. The city council or a local utility board sets its rates, usually after a public meeting, and the Tennessee Public Utility Commission generally does not.
Commission contact: Tennessee Public Utility Commission. How we calculate every figure on this page: methodology.
Questions
Is City of Greeneville raising rates in 2026?
City of Greeneville's rates are set by the city council or a local utility board, not through a rate case at the Tennessee Public Utility Commission, so check its own notices for a change this year. Its average residential rate moved +6.6% from 2024 to 2025.
What does City of Greeneville charge per kWh?
City of Greeneville's average effective residential rate was 12.69¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA-861, revenue divided by sales, all charges included). Tennessee's 2025 average was 13.22¢.
How much have City of Greeneville rates gone up in five years?
+24.5% between 2020 and 2025, against +22.7% for Tennessee as a whole over the latest five-year window.
How many customers does City of Greeneville have in Tennessee?
32,686 residential customers in 2025, across 1 county including Greene, 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)