Pepco (District of Columbia) commercial electricity

What the U.S. government data says about Pepco (District of Columbia)

• Commercial customers27,6052025, EIA Form EIA-861
• Buy energy from a supplier84%of commercial kWh · 33% of customers
• Delivery price8.70¢average per kWh, delivery-only customers
• Default-service price23.62¢per kWh, customers on bundled service
• Outages34 mina year per customer · US average 124

In 2025, 84% of the commercial kWh delivered by Pepco (District of Columbia) went to customers buying energy from a competitive supplier, and 16% stayed on the utility's default service. By customer count it is 33%, because the businesses that shop tend to be the larger ones.

Pepco (District of Columbia)’s delivery charges averaged 8.70¢ per kWh across its 9,071 delivery-only commercial customers: the part of the bill no supplier can change. It is an average over customers of every size. Large customers pay far less per kWh than small ones, so your own delivery charge per kWh will differ; the average customer here used about 55,674 kWh a month.

Pepco (District of Columbia) customers went without power for an average of 34 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.31 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes.

EIA records Pepco (District of Columbia) serving customers in 1 District of Columbia county: District of Columbia. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861, 2025 final data. Averages across all commercial customers of each service type: dated context, not a quote and not an available offer.

What Pepco (District of Columbia) controls and what it does not

Cities and areas in this territory

Territory boundaries do not follow city limits. Two addresses on the same street can sit in different territories, which is why we confirm the Account number rather than inferring eligibility from the city or the ZIP code. Inferring from location is the most common way a commercial account is told it can do something it cannot.

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Which lever moves which charge

This is the question a utility page exists to answer. If you change something at the meter, which line on the bill actually moves — and which one does not move no matter what you do?

Fixed customer chargeNothing you do

A flat monthly amount for being connected. It does not move with consumption or with peak.

No lever

Volumetric distributionHow much you use

Charged per kilowatt-hour. This is the line that efficiency work moves.

Use less

Demand chargeHow hard you draw

Charged per kilowatt of billed demand. Set by your highest interval, not by your total — which is why cutting consumption may not move it at all.

Lower the peak

Riders and surchargesRegulatory filings

Adjusted periodically through approved filings. They step rather than scale, and nothing you do at the meter changes them.

No lever

Schematic shapes, not Pepco (District of Columbia)'s actual rates — those come from the filed tariff. The point is the behaviour: two of these four respond to something you control, and a supplier changes none of them.

What sits inside the delivery charge from Pepco (District of Columbia)

Delivery is not one number. On a commercial account it is typically assembled from several components, each set by the filed tariff and each behaving differently as your usage changes:

• A fixed customer or meter charge, which does not move with consumption at all.
• A volumetric distribution charge per kWh, which scales with how much you use.
• A demand charge per kW where the account is demand-metered, which scales with how hard you draw rather than how much you use — and which is where a low load factor account gets hurt.
• Riders and surcharges, adjusted periodically through regulatory filings, covering items such as transmission cost recovery, energy efficiency programs and storm or system restoration costs.

None of these changes when you change supplier. Understanding the mix matters because it determines which action actually moves your bill: reducing consumption attacks the volumetric component, reducing peak draw attacks the demand component, and neither one touches the fixed charge.

What the Pepco (District of Columbia) tariff says: Schedules GS ND, GS LV and MGT LV (distribution service charges)

Read 2026-10-31 from Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) Electric Tariff, P.S.C. of D.C. No. 1, Rate Schedules for Electric Service in the District of Columbia, issued September 29, 2026, effective for usage on and after October 1, 2026. Each figure is quoted from that document, and it is a schedule figure, not a bill estimate. See every tariff quoted on this site. The tariff and the schedule code on your bill control what applies to you.

Which schedules this covers

GS ND (General Service Non-Demand) is for customers whose maximum monthly demand is less than 25 kW. Customers with maximum demand between 25 kW and 99 kW are served on GS LV (low voltage) or GS 3A (primary service). MGT LV (Time Metered Medium General Service, Low Voltage) is for maximum 30-minute demand of 100 kW or more but less than 1,000 kW during two or more billing months within twelve.

GS ND monthly charges

Rate Year 2, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026: customer charge $38.30 per month; kilowatt-hour charge $0.07778 per kwhr in summer billing months (June through October) and $0.06087 per kwhr in winter billing months (November through May). The table also prints Rate Year 1 figures.

GS LV monthly charges

Rate Year 2, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026: customer charge $38.29 per month; kilowatt-hour charge $0.05264 per kwhr in summer and $0.03988 per kwhr in winter; demand charge $13.60 per kw. The table also prints Rate Year 1 figures.

MGT LV monthly charges

Rate Year 2, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026: customer charge $360.18 per month; kilowatt-hour charge $0.02053 per kwhr in both summer and winter; the per-kilowatt line, which the table labels Kilowatt - Charge Maximum, is $21.13 per kw. The table also prints Rate Year 1 figures.

How billing demand is set

Billing demand is the maximum 30-minute demand recorded in the month. On GS ND and GS LV, demand metering is installed when use exceeds 6,000 kWh in two consecutive winter billing months or 7,500 kWh in one summer billing month, or when demand reaches 25 kW in a month. Reviewed annually, an account is billed non-demand when each of the previous twelve months is below 6,000 kWh and demand is under 25 kW.

Billed separately

Generation and transmission are not in these figures: customers who do not receive service from an alternative electric supplier get them from Pepco under Rider SOS (Standard Offer Service). Each schedule also lists applicable riders (for example Administrative Credit, Power Factor, Delivery Tax and MRP Adjustment); no rider amount is printed on these pages.

What to pull off a Pepco (District of Columbia) bill before any conversation

• Account number — the identifier that determines territory and eligibility
• Rate schedule code as printed on the bill
• 12 months of kWh, and peak kW if the account is demand-metered
• The delivery and supply sections, kept separate
• Current supplier and contract expiry, if any