City of Newark electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 11,888 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 18.99¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the Delaware average of 19.38¢ closely, which is what you would expect from a utility large enough to shape that average itself.

Consumption here is below the national norm at 692 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which softens the effect of the rate on the final bill.

Owned by the city it serves and governed by a local board rather than the state commission. No shareholder return is built into the rate. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

In 2024 the average City of Newark customer went 84 minutes without electricity across 0.77 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is markedly better than typical. Short outage durations usually mean an underground or heavily automated network, and they are expensive to achieve, which is part of why reliable systems often carry higher delivery charges.

199 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 1.65 megawatts. That works out to 16.7 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.