Delaware Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202513.70¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Delaware average+8.0%state commercial average 12.68¢
• Commercial customers13,1672nd largest of 6 in Delaware
• Average use1,944 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$266a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+24%from 11.06¢ per kWh
• Outages75 mina year per customer · US average 124

Delaware Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative serving 2 counties in Delaware. Among the 6 Delaware utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 2nd largest, with about 22% of the state’s commercial customers.

Delaware Electric Cooperative commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Delaware Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers an average of 11.06¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 13.70¢, so it rose 24% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Delaware rose 24% over the same period. The highest year was 2023, at 14.42¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it fell 1.1%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Delaware Electric Cooperative

In 2025 the average commercial price at Delaware Electric Cooperative was 1.4% below the residential figure and 32% below the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Delaware Electric Cooperative’s commercial rates are set

Delaware Electric Cooperative is a cooperative, owned by the members it serves. Its board sets its rates, and in some states the state commission reviews them as well. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. What a business in Delaware can and cannot choose is on the Delaware page.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Delaware Electric Cooperative

EIA counts 13,167 commercial meters at Delaware Electric Cooperative in 2025, and 13,165 of them (more than 99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 2 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At Delaware Electric Cooperative, 2 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.0% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Delaware Electric Cooperative reports offering commercial customers are critical peak pricing.

EIA records 154 commercial net-metered generating systems at Delaware Electric Cooperative in 2025, with 14.3 MW of capacity between them: about 12 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Delaware Electric Cooperative’s electric service?

Delaware Electric Cooperative customers went without power for an average of 75 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 1.13 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 112 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Delaware Electric Cooperative serves

EIA records Delaware Electric Cooperative serving customers in 2 Delaware counties: Kent, Sussex. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists PJM as its balancing authority. PJM is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Delaware

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Delaware page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Delmarva Power (Delaware) (16.14¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Delaware Electric Cooperative’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Delaware page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Delaware Electric Cooperative commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Delaware Electric Cooperative

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Delaware Electric Cooperative?

Delaware Electric Cooperative billed its commercial customers in Delaware an average of 13.70¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 8.0% above the Delaware commercial average of 12.68¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Delaware Electric Cooperative?

About $266 a month in 2025, on average use of about 1,944 kWh a month. That is Delaware Electric Cooperative’s commercial revenue divided by its 13,167 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Delaware Electric Cooperative’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Delaware Electric Cooperative billed commercial customers rose 24% between 2015 and 2025, from 11.06¢ to 13.70¢ per kWh. The Delaware commercial average rose 24% over the same period.

How reliable is Delaware Electric Cooperative’s electric service?

Delaware Electric Cooperative customers averaged 75 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Delaware Electric Cooperative use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 13,165 advanced (AMI) meters among Delaware Electric Cooperative’s 13,167 commercial meters in 2025, which is more than 99%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Delaware Electric Cooperative?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Delaware Electric Cooperative’s tariff.