Delaware Electric Cooperative Electricity Rates

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 9 utilities reporting residential rates in Delaware, Delaware Electric Cooperative comes 2nd of 9. The state's range runs from Sunrun Inc. at 12.98¢ to City of Newark - (DE) at 18.99¢, so where a household sits inside Delaware depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

All figures come from the 2024 release, so no comparison mixes vintages. The state figure is customer-weighted across 9 reporting utilities.

Scale and consumption

Delaware Electric Cooperative reported 104.8K residential customers, ranking 2nd of 9 utilities in Delaware by customers served and covering 24.2% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 12,376 kWh per customer per year - above the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $1,760.

Within Delaware the median reporting utility sells about 10,603 kWh per customer, so Delaware Electric Cooperative customers use +16.7% against their own state's middle. Consumption this heavy usually tracks electric heating, sustained air-conditioning load or a largely detached-housing territory, which makes the price per kWh bite harder here than the headline rate suggests.

Every utility reporting in Delaware

All 9 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Delaware, largest first, with Delaware Electric Cooperative marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in Delaware.

Common questions about Delaware Electric Cooperative rates

How much does Delaware Electric Cooperative charge per kWh?

Delaware Electric Cooperative reported an average residential price of 14.22¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.

Is Delaware Electric Cooperative expensive compared with the rest of Delaware?

Its average residential price is below the Delaware customer-weighted average of 16.42¢ per kWh, a difference of -13.4%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 9 utilities reporting residential service in Delaware.

What is the average electricity bill for Delaware Electric Cooperative customers?

Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 12,376 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,760 a year, or about $147 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.

Who owns Delaware Electric Cooperative?

EIA classifies Delaware Electric Cooperative as Cooperative, a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Nationally, Cooperative utilities averaged 14.14¢ per kWh in the 2024 release.

What this page does and does not tell you

• An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
• Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology, why energy prices vary and understanding rate structures.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.