Con Edison commercial electricity

What the U.S. government data says about Con Edison

• Commercial customers577,3822025, EIA Form EIA-861
• Buy energy from a supplier70%of commercial kWh · 20% of customers
• Delivery price11.84¢average per kWh, delivery-only customers
• Default-service price30.81¢per kWh, customers on bundled service
• Outages18 mina year per customer · US average 124

In 2025, 70% of the commercial kWh delivered by Con Edison went to customers buying energy from a competitive supplier, and 30% stayed on the utility's default service. By customer count it is 20%, because the businesses that shop tend to be the larger ones.

Con Edison’s delivery charges averaged 11.84¢ per kWh across its 113,040 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 18,564 kWh a month.

Con Edison customers went without power for an average of 18 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.12 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. This utility reports on a different measurement standard, so the comparison is only approximate.

EIA records Con Edison serving customers in 6 New York counties: Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Westchester. 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 Con Edison 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.

New York · Yonkers · White Plains · New Rochelle

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 Con Edison'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 Con Edison

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 York

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 Con Edison tariff says: SC 2 Rate I (General - Small) and SC 9 Rate I (General - Large)

Read 2026-10-31 from Consolidated Edison Schedule for Electricity Service, P.S.C. No. 10 - Electricity: rates on Leaf 397 (SC 2 Rate I) and Leaf 445 (SC 9 Rate I), initial effective date 02/01/2026; the applicability and billing rules come from other leaves of the same tariff, each printing its own, earlier, effective date. 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.

SC 2 General - Small, Rate I charges

Rate I applies to all SC 2 customers not billed under another rate. The customer charge is $34.00 per month, with a lower figure printed for certain unmetered service. The energy delivery charge is $0.2038 per kWhr for June, July, August and September and $0.1709 per kWhr for all other months. The rate page lists no demand charge.

Who SC 2 covers

Service Classification No. 2 (General - Small) is for general light, heat and power use where the customer's requirements do not exceed 10 kilowatts. A customer whose metered use under it exceeds 10 kilowatts of maximum demand in two consecutive months is billed under the appropriate service classification afterwards.

Who SC 9 Rate I covers

SC 9 (General - Large) is for general light, heat and power use where the customer's initial requirements are expected to be in excess of 10 kilowatts. Rate I applies to every SC 9 customer not billed under Rate II, III, IV or V. Rate II (time-of-day) is mandatory in listed cases, including a customer not on Rider J whose monthly maximum demand exceeds 1,500 kW in any annual period ending September 30.

SC 9 Rate I customer and demand charges

The customer charge is $72.00 per month. The demand delivery charge is per kW of maximum demand. For June, July, August and September it is $44.05 per kW at low tension service and $30.41 per kW at high tension service; for all other months it is $34.50 per kW at low tension service and $21.17 per kW at high tension service.

SC 9 Rate I energy charge

The energy delivery charge, applicable for all months, is $0.0154 per kWhr at low tension service and $0.0143 per kWhr at high tension service.

How billing demand is set

Maximum demand is the highest 30-minute integrated demand in the billing period. SC 9 Rate I customers are subject to a Minimum Monthly Charge, which is paid in place of the monthly adjustment clause, the demand delivery charges and the energy delivery charges in a month when it exceeds the monthly pure base revenue. It equals the Contract Demand (the highest registered demand in the most recent 18 months) times 40 percent of the Demand Delivery Charges per kW that apply.

Billed separately

Not in these figures: the additional delivery charges and adjustments in General Rule 26 (such as the monthly adjustment clause, billing and payment processing charge and system benefits charge) and, for full service customers, the supply charges in General Rule 25. General Rule 30 increases rates and charges to reflect municipal taxes, by a percentage shown on a separate Statement.

What to pull off a Con Edison 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