Citizens Electric Co electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 5,958 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 13.63¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Pennsylvania, 36.8% under the statewide average of 21.55¢.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 1,141 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever the rate does.

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 Citizens Electric Co customer went 87 minutes without electricity across 0.98 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.

71 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.89 megawatts. That works out to 11.9 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.