North Carolina time-of-use hours by utility

Across the 18 residential TOU plans tou.tools tracks in North Carolina, the most common on-peak window is 6 AM – 9 AM (12 plans); others run 6 PM – 9 PM and 2 PM – 6 PM. Every hour outside the on-peak (and any mid-peak) window is billed as off-peak. Exact boundaries vary by utility and plan — see each utility's schedule above.

tou.tools tracks 12 North Carolina utilities with at least one active TOU rate plan — 47 active schedules in total. The largest by customers served are Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, Duke Energy Progress, and EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp. They span investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, and electric cooperatives. The full list above is sorted by customers served.

It depends on the plan. Of the 18 residential TOU plans we track in North Carolina, 7 apply on-peak periods every day including weekends, while 11 restrict on-peak to weekdays and treat weekends as off-peak. Many tariffs also treat observed holidays as off-peak; the Days column in each schedule above shows the exact rule.

Yes. All 18 residential TOU plans we track in North Carolina split the year into seasons (typically summer and winter) with different period boundaries. Each schedule above lists its exact season dates.

tou.tools tracks 7 EV-specific rate plans in North Carolina (EV-1, EV-SUB, LP-CEV, NC-R-TOU-EV, R-TOU-EV, R-TOU-EV+SOLAR, and RT-EV). On EV time-of-use plans the lowest-cost window is generally the overnight super-off-peak or off-peak period; charging then avoids the on-peak window. See the EV plan schedules for the exact hours.

tou.tools maps 1,710 North Carolina ZIP codes to the utilities that serve them. Because service territories can overlap, a ZIP may return more than one candidate utility; supplying a full street address resolves it to a single utility via a geocoded point-in-territory lookup. The REST API and MCP server both return the matching utility and its current TOU period.