State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Pennsylvania Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Pennsylvania costs 21.55¢ per kWh (+11.7% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Pennsylvania's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 19.30¢/kWh, 11.6% above the US average. Both figures point the same way: an above-average rate and only 4% of generation from renewables. The fuel-by-fuel and sector detail is below.
- 21.55¢
- May 2026 rate
- +11.7%
- year over year
- 19.30¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- +11.6%
- vs US average
- 4%
- Renewable
- 5.5M
- Customers
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19.30¢/kWh residential, 12.44¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Pennsylvania's residential average revenue per kWh is 19.30¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 12.44¢/kWh and an industrial average of 9.36¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 4% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 11.6% above the US average vs national residential average
- 4% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Pennsylvania's residential electricity runs 19.30¢/kWh - 11.6% above the 17.30¢/kWh national average, pricier than 72% of other states, with 4% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 5.5M reported residential customers, a benchmark for comparing states, not the tariff on any single bill. Source: EIA retail-sales API, annual frequency.
Annual rate change
What changed in the 2025 annual EIA period
- Pennsylvania's industrial average rose from 7.87¢/kWh to 9.36¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +18.9%.
- Pennsylvania's commercial average rose from 11.03¢/kWh to 12.44¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +12.8%.
- Pennsylvania's residential average rose from 17.77¢/kWh to 19.30¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +8.6%.
Where Pennsylvania's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
19.30¢/kWh 28th affordability percentile More affordable than 28% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
Each bar spans 5¢/kWh. Taller bars contain more states; the dashed marker locates this state. Hover, focus or tap a bar for its exact count and share.
Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How Pennsylvania compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Pennsylvania against the US average or a peer state.
What Pennsylvania's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Pennsylvania pay 19.30¢/kWh in 2025, across 5.5M metered households, placing the state 11.6% above the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 12.44¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 9.36¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 56.1M MWh on roughly $10.8B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
Pennsylvania prices its sectors in step: 15 of 51 residential against 17 industrial. A state this consistent is the exception rather than the rule, and it means the residential figure above is a fair proxy for how the whole grid is priced. Natural gas carries the majority of Pennsylvania's in-state generation at 58.0%, though not the whole grid: nuclear supplies 30.3% and coal a further 7.1%. It is the leading fuel in 26 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 4.2% of Pennsylvania's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Pennsylvania moved from 13.86¢/kWh in 2016 to 19.30¢/kWh in 2025, a 39.2% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Maryland, Michigan, Wisconsin, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Because gas sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour on a grid built around it, Pennsylvania's residential rate tracks the fuel market with a lag: a gas-price winter shows up on bills months later, and a cheap gas year works its way through the same way. Above-average does not mean uniformly expensive. The figure blends every utility in Pennsylvania, and in a state priced at this level the difference between its cheapest and dearest service territories usually matters more to a given bill than the state's rank does.
+11.6%
More expensive vs the US residential average
28%
of states have higher rates — Above-average cost
4%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
5.5M
residential customers served
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$10.8B
Commercial Revenue
$5.0B
Residential Sales
56.1M MWh
Residential Customers
5.5M
Residential Price History
Pennsylvania residential average revenue per kWh moved from 13.86¢/kWh in 2016 to 19.30¢/kWh in 2025 (39.2% over the window).
- Pennsylvania residential avg
- 19.30¢/kWh 39.2% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Pennsylvania residential: 2016, 13.9¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2017, 14.2¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2018, 13.9¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2019, 13.8¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2020, 13.6¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2021, 13.8¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2022, 15.9¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2023, 18.1¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2024, 17.8¢
- Pennsylvania residential: 2025, 19.3¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Pennsylvania full trend →
Pennsylvania Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Pennsylvania households paid 19.30¢/kWh while businesses paid 12.44¢/kWh, a 55.1% residential premium, one of the widest household-versus-business gaps in the country. Every year EIA has published is below, so a single year can be read across all three sectors rather than assembled from three separate EIA queries.
| Year | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19.30¢/kWh | 12.44¢/kWh | 9.36¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 17.77¢/kWh | 11.03¢/kWh | 7.87¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 18.10¢/kWh | 11.26¢/kWh | 7.75¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 15.94¢/kWh | 10.73¢/kWh | 8.21¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 13.76¢/kWh | 8.91¢/kWh | 6.54¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 13.58¢/kWh | 8.50¢/kWh | 6.16¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 13.80¢/kWh | 8.71¢/kWh | 6.41¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 13.89¢/kWh | 8.94¢/kWh | 6.84¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 14.23¢/kWh | 8.98¢/kWh | 6.77¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 13.86¢/kWh | 9.22¢/kWh | 6.92¢/kWh |
Average revenue per kilowatt-hour, U.S. Energy Information Administration annual-frequency retail-sales series. Revenue per kWh is what customers in each sector actually paid on average, not an advertised tariff rate. Years with no EIA figure for a sector show —.
Who generates Pennsylvania's electricity
Pennsylvania has 603 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 47,831 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Peach Bottom , a nuclear station operated by Constellation Nuclear , rated 2,549 MW.
The grid here is run by PJM Interconnection, LLC, the balancing authority that keeps supply and demand matched across the state.
Showing the 16 largest of 262 operable plants in Pennsylvania by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peach Bottom | Constellation Nuclear | Nuclear | – | 2,549 |
| TalenEnergy Susquehanna | TalenEnergy Susquehanna LLC | Nuclear | – | 2,494 |
| Limerick | Constellation Nuclear | Nuclear | – | 2,242 |
| Beaver Valley | Energy Harbor Nuclear Generation LLC | Nuclear | – | 1,808 |
| Conemaugh | KeyCon Operating LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,700 |
| Keystone | KeyCon Operating LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,700 |
| TalenEnergy Martins Creek | TalenEnergy Martins Creek LLC | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 1,700 |
| TalenEnergy Montour | TalenEnergy Montour LLC | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 1,504 |
| Brunner Island | Brunner Island LLC | Natural Gas Steam Turbine | – | 1,411 |
| York Energy Center | Calpine Mid-Merit LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,404 |
| Lackawanna Energy Center | Invenergy Services LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,362 |
| Fairless Energy Center | Edgewater Generation, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,280 |
| Bethlehem Power Plant | Calpine Bethlehem LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,136 |
| Hummel Station LLC | Hummel Station, LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,086 |
| Muddy Run | Constellation Power, Inc | Hydroelectric Pumped Storage | – | 1,058 |
| Moxie Freedom Generation Plant | Moxie Freedom LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,045 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Constellation Nuclear | 2 | 4,791 |
| KeyCon Operating LLC | 2 | 3,400 |
| Constellation Power, Inc | 10 | 2,646 |
| TalenEnergy Susquehanna LLC | 1 | 2,494 |
| Energy Harbor Nuclear Generation LLC | 1 | 1,808 |
| TalenEnergy Martins Creek LLC | 1 | 1,700 |
| TalenEnergy Montour LLC | 1 | 1,504 |
| Brunner Island LLC | 1 | 1,411 |
| Calpine Mid-Merit LLC | 1 | 1,404 |
| Invenergy Services LLC | 1 | 1,362 |
Operable units only, from EIA's generator inventory as reported for 2026-05. Capacity is net summer rating, which is what a unit can reliably deliver in peak conditions rather than its nameplate figure. Ownership and operatorship can differ; the company shown is the one EIA records as operating the unit.
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Pennsylvania generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 4.2% of generation.
- Natural Gas58.0%
- Nuclear30.3%
- Coal7.1%
- Windrenewable1.4%
- Solarrenewable1.4%
- Hydrorenewable1.1%
- Other0.3%
- Biomassrenewable0.3%
- Petroleum0.1%
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States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by natural gas
These grids also report natural gas as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
Using Pennsylvania's numbers
With renewables still a small share of generation here, the figures above describe a mix that has further to travel than most. Watch what Pennsylvania builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- Pennsylvania sits 11.6% above the national average, see exactly where it lands among all 50 states. See the rankings
- Check the multi-year trend before you judge the rate, a low price rising fast can cost more over a decade than a steady one. Pennsylvania price trend
- Compare Pennsylvania side by side with the US average and peer states using the tool above, then estimate your own bill from your monthly kWh. Cost calculator
Figures are EIA state averages by sector, computed as revenue divided by sales, so delivery and taxes are inside them but not broken out. Your actual rate depends on your utility, plan, and usage, see our disclaimer.
Read with Pennsylvania: why energy prices vary
Where Pennsylvania's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
- 📊 EIA State Energy Profile, Pennsylvania State energy database
- ⚡ EIA Electric Power Monthly The monthly and annual price series behind every rate here
- 🌿 EIA generation by source The in-state generation shares quoted above
- 📖 Our methodology Source-to-figure lineage, and further federal energy references
Utilities serving Pennsylvania
The 23 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Pennsylvania to EIA Form 861 (2024), largest first. Entity prices below are Form 861 averages for that release, not the same survey as the 2025 retail-sales statewide average above, and not a household tariff. What an individual household pays depends on which of these serves its address.
| Utility | Ownership | Customers | Avg ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | Investor Owned | 1.5M | 17.37¢ |
| PECO Energy Co | Investor Owned | 1.2M | 16.16¢ |
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | Investor Owned | 797.8K | 16.99¢ |
| Duquesne Light Co | Investor Owned | 434.2K | 21.74¢ |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | Investor Owned | 54.5K | 18.93¢ |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | Cooperative | 32.2K | 14.42¢ |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | Cooperative | 23.6K | 17.03¢ |
| REA Energy Coop Inc | Cooperative | 20.9K | 14.53¢ |
| Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (PA) | Cooperative | 18.2K | 20.08¢ |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | Cooperative | 18.2K | 15.58¢ |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 18.2K | 14.87¢ |
| Claverack Rural Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 16.7K | 18.25¢ |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 12.3K | 13.96¢ |
| Sunnova | Behind the Meter | 10.8K | 17.37¢ |
| Borough of Chambersburg | Municipal | 9.9K | 11.95¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 23 reporting utilities. The 4 serving 100.0K+ residential customers link to a full profile. Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility is available at a given address or that a customer may choose it.
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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Statewide prices use the EIA retail-sales annual series (2025). Generation mix uses a separate EIA generation series (2025). Utility rows use Form EIA-861 (2024) and are not averaged into the statewide retail-sales figure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.