Since 1917 Apex owns and operates its own electric distribution system for service to customers within the town limits of Apex, parts of Cary and some rural areas. There are currently three substations and approximately 315 miles of distribution lines. We provide electricity to approximately 14,300 metered residential and commercial customers.

Apex is a part of the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency that has interest in five generating units built and operated by Progress Energy. These facilities include three nuclear units - Brunswick Units 1 and 2 in Brunswick County and Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant in Wake County, and two coal-fired plants - Mayon Plant and Roxboro Unit 4 in Person County.   

Apex is affiliated with ElectriCities, a not-for-profit association of 99 members representing Public Power communities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia that distribute electricity. Fifty-one of them are also participants in either North Carolina Municipal Power Agency Number 1 or North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power agency, which also generate the power supplied to over 400,000 customers.

ElectriCities is a support association providing information and training support to organization members. All policies and rates are adopted by the local elected body and Apex operates as an independent entity. For additional information on ElectriCities or Public Power go to  www.electricities.com  or  www.ncpublicpower.com for more details.

Apex provides a premium level of service for customers by being “close to home.” In the event of a storm or other problems, our linemen are nearby, ready to respond, and very knowledgeable of the system and how it operates.

Our electric division includes twenty five employees consisting of a Division Manager, an Electric Operations Supervisor, an Electrical Engineer, an Electric Technical Services Supervisor, a Senior Technical Services Specialist, two Electric System Specialist, four Electric Crew Field Supervisors, a Power line Arborist, a Power line Right-Of-Way Specialists, Seven Senior Line Technicians, Two Electric Line Technician II, Two Electric Line Technician I and One Administrative Specialist.

Business and residential customers can seek advice on ways to save on their energy costs by contacting Mr. Daniel Lund, Senior Technical Services Specialist at (919) 249-3522. You can learn more about how to conserve and review a model of your energy consumption profile at the Energy Depot, a web based service designed to educate and compare on ways to save energy.

Apex offers an innovative and very cost effective special program as a means to allow residential customers to reduce their cost of electricity. The Load Management Program is a subscription based program whereby the load of certain appliances is removed by a radio frequency controlled switch during periods of peak demand.  Customers who take advantage of Load Management receive a credit on their monthly billing as incentive to participate and share in the savings. Load Management is the most effective way to reduce your cost of electricity and we have nearly 100% satisfaction level from program participants.

Our electric division also provides customer leased security (area or parking lot) lighting.  Contact our Electric Technical Services Supervisor, Mr. Rodney Smith at (919) 249-3342.

You may also report street lights which are not burning or may be cycling on and off via the online request form or by calling (919) 249-3427.

Additional information about Public Power

• What is Public Power?
• Why be a Public Power Community?
• History of Public Power