Jersey Central Power & Light commercial electricity

What the U.S. government data says about Jersey Central Power & Light

• Commercial customers131,7712025, EIA Form EIA-861
• Buy energy from a supplier64%of commercial kWh · 29% of customers
• Delivery price4.24¢average per kWh, delivery-only customers
• Default-service price17.16¢per kWh, customers on bundled service
• Outages234 mina year per customer · US average 124

In 2025, 64% of the commercial kWh delivered by Jersey Central Power & Light went to customers buying energy from a competitive supplier, and 36% stayed on the utility's default service. By customer count it is 29%, because the businesses that shop tend to be the larger ones.

Jersey Central Power & Light’s delivery charges averaged 4.24¢ per kWh across its 38,464 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 11,525 kWh a month.

Jersey Central Power & Light customers went without power for an average of 234 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 1.89 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes.

EIA records Jersey Central Power & Light serving customers in 13 New Jersey counties: Burlington, Essex, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, Warren. 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 Jersey Central Power & Light 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.

Toms River · Freehold · Morristown · Long Branch

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 Jersey Central Power & Light'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 Jersey Central Power & Light

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.

The other territories in New Jersey

Boundaries do not follow city limits. If you are not certain which of these serves your address, confirm the Account number printed on the bill rather than inferring it from the city.

What the Jersey Central Power & Light tariff says: Service Classification GS (General Service Secondary)

Read 2026-10-31 from JCP&L Electric Tariff, BPU No. 14 Electric, Part III, Service Classification GS: Sheet No. 10 effective July 15, 2026 and Sheet No. 11 effective 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.

Who Service Classification GS covers

General service at secondary voltages, single or three-phase, that is not included under Service Classifications RS, RT, RGT or GST. GST, the secondary time-of-day class, is available to commercial and industrial customers establishing demands in excess of 750 KW in two consecutive months during the current 24-month period. The sheet's rate heading says all its charges include Sales and Use Tax (Rider SUT).

Fixed monthly charge

Customer Charge: $4.65 per month single-phase and $16.69 per month three-phase. Supplemental Customer Charge: $2.23 per month for Off-Peak/Controlled Water Heating, $3.81 per month for Day/Night Service and $17.34 per month for Traffic Signal Service. The sheet says the Customer and Distribution charges include Corporation Business Tax (Rider CBT).

Demand charge per KW

The Distribution Charge includes a KW Charge (Demand Charge) of $9.00 per maximum KW during June through September and $8.38 per maximum KW during October through May, each in excess of 10 KW. The sheet also prints a KW Minimum Charge of $4.08 per KW, in excess of 10 KW, which the minimum demand rule below uses.

Energy charge per KWH

The Distribution Charge also has a KWH Charge, excluding water heating and traffic signal service. June through September: $0.075288 per KWH for all KWH up to 1000 KWH and $0.006021 per KWH for all KWH over 1000 KWH. October through May: $0.069662 per KWH for all KWH up to 1000 KWH and $0.006021 per KWH for all KWH over 1000 KWH.

How demand is measured

The KW used for billing is the maximum 15-minute integrated kilowatt demand in the billing month, to the nearest one-tenth KW. Where JCP&L has determined that demand will not exceed 10 KW and has elected not to install a demand meter, demand is considered less than 10 KW for billing. A Contract Demand not less than the actual monthly demands may also be specified for mutually agreeable contract purposes.

Minimum demand charge

The monthly KW Demand Charge is the greater of two amounts: the KW Charge times the current month's maximum demand created during on-peak hours, or the KW Minimum Charge times the highest on-peak or off-peak demand created in the current and preceding eleven months, but not less than the Contract Demand.

Billed separately

Default-service energy and reconciliation charges (Rider BGS-RSCP or BGS-CIEP) and a transmission charge are printed under Basic Generation Service and apply to full service customers, not to delivery service customers. The sheet also lists riders NGC, SBC, RRC, ENJ, LRAM, CRC and ZEC, each with its rate in the rider, and a CIEP standby fee. None of these is in the figures above.

What to pull off a Jersey Central Power & Light 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