Atlantic City Electric Co electricity rates

It serves 472,020 residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in New Jersey. At 23.41¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the New Jersey average of 23.27¢ 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 633 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which softens the effect of the rate on the final bill.

A shareholder-owned company whose rates are set by the state regulator, including an approved return on the capital it has invested. 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 Atlantic City Electric Co customer went 123 minutes without electricity across 0.84 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is better than the typical American utility, though the figure includes major storm days and can move sharply from one year to the next.

52,216 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 427.29 megawatts. That works out to 110.6 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption here is exceptionally high. That usually means some combination of a high retail rate worth displacing, strong sunshine and favourable export rules, and it tends to bring its own regulatory argument about who covers the fixed cost of the network. What exports are actually worth.