Orange & Rockland Utils Inc electricity rates

It serves 170,465 residential customers in New York. At 23.31¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in New York, 22.1% under the statewide average of 29.93¢.

Consumption here is below the national norm at 670 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 Orange & Rockland Utils Inc customer went 231 minutes without electricity across 1.57 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is worse than typical. Overhead lines through wooded or storm-exposed terrain are the usual explanation, and the fix is vegetation management and circuit automation, both of which are recovered through rates.

13,036 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 100.24 megawatts. That works out to 76.5 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.