Long Island Power Authority electricity rates

It serves 1.0 million residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in New York. At 24.57¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in New York, 17.9% under the statewide average of 29.93¢.

Consumption here is below the national norm at 739 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which softens the effect of the rate on the final bill.

Operated by the state itself, with rates set through a public body rather than a commission proceeding. 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 Long Island Power Authority customer went 63 minutes without electricity across 0.75 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.

88,389 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 629.43 megawatts. That works out to 85.8 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.