PSE&G commercial electricity

What the U.S. government data says about PSE&G

• Commercial customers325,2502025, EIA Form EIA-861
• Buy energy from a supplier55%of commercial kWh · 17% of customers
• Delivery price5.95¢average per kWh, delivery-only customers
• Default-service price16.76¢per kWh, customers on bundled service
• Outages43 mina year per customer · US average 124

In 2025, 55% of the commercial kWh delivered by PSE&G went to customers buying energy from a competitive supplier, and 45% stayed on the utility's default service. By customer count it is 17%, because the businesses that shop tend to be the larger ones.

PSE&G’s delivery charges averaged 5.95¢ per kWh across its 53,925 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 19,434 kWh a month.

PSE&G customers went without power for an average of 43 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.63 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes.

EIA records PSE&G serving customers in 14 New Jersey counties: Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Union. 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 PSE&G 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.

Newark · Jersey City · Trenton · New Brunswick · Elizabeth

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 PSE&G'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 PSE&G

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 PSE&G tariff says: Rate Schedule GLP (General Lighting and Power Service)

Read 2026-10-30 from PSE&G Electric Tariff, B.P.U.N.J. No. 17 Electric, Rate Schedule GLP Second Revised Sheet No. 129 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 Rate Schedule GLP covers

Delivery service for general purposes at secondary distribution voltages. The schedule is not supplied where Monthly Peak Demand exceeds 150 kilowatts in any month, where a customer served under LPL-secondary has had Monthly Peak Demand above 100 kilowatts in any of the prior 24 consecutive months, or where the electrical capacity installed by Public Service exceeds 400 kilowatts.

Service charge

The service charge is $7.56 in each month, or $8.06 including New Jersey Sales and Use Tax (SUT).

Demand charges

Annual Demand Charge, applicable in all months: $4.4531 per kilowatt of Monthly Peak Demand ($4.7481 including SUT). Summer Demand Charge, applicable in the months of June through September: $15.3231 per kilowatt of Monthly Peak Demand ($16.3383 including SUT).

Distribution kilowatt-hour charge

In the months of October through May the charge is $0.003568 per kilowatt-hour ($0.003804 including SUT). In the months of June through September it is $0.015981 per kilowatt-hour ($0.017040 including SUT). The tariff says the distribution charges include Infrastructure Improvement Program Charges (IIP).

How Monthly Peak Demand is set

With a demand meter it is the greatest average kilowatts delivered during any thirty-minute interval; without one it is estimated by dividing the kilowatt-hours by 100. A new customer expecting 10 kilowatts or more is measured. An existing customer billed on estimate moves to measurement if billed use in any of the preceding 12 months exceeded 1,000 kilowatt-hours or its measured demand exceeded 10 kilowatts.

Minimum charge

Where electricity is used for seldom used applications an Annual Minimum charge may be applied. It equals the diversified connected load of the electric service, in kW, times the Annual Demand Charge times 6, and is met only from the distribution kilowatt and kilowatt-hour charges.

Billed separately

Electric supply is not in these figures: it comes from a Third Party Supplier under its own agreement or from Basic Generation Service. The schedule also lists societal benefits, non-utility generation, solar pilot, green programs, zero emission certificate, conservation incentive and COVID-19 charges, a tax adjustment credit and a CIEP standby fee, each with its amount on another sheet.

What to pull off a PSE&G 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