PSEG Long Island (LIPA) commercial electricity rates in New York

• Average commercial price, 202523.17¢per kWh, customers on bundled service
• vs New York average+10%state commercial average 20.97¢
• Commercial customers133,6803rd largest of 12 in New York
• Average use5,205 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$1,206a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+33%from 17.46¢ per kWh
• Outages62 mina year per customer · US average 124

PSEG Long Island (LIPA) is a state-owned utility serving 3 counties in New York. Among the 12 New York utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 3rd largest, with about 11% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Long Island Power Authority.

PSEG Long Island commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 PSEG Long Island billed its commercial customers on bundled service an average of 17.46¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 23.17¢, so it rose 33% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in New York rose 37% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 8.0%.

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.

PSEG Long Island customers who buy their energy from a supplier

In 2025, 7% of the commercial kWh PSEG Long Island delivered went to customers buying their energy from a competitive supplier, and 1% of its commercial customers did so. The share by kWh is the larger because the businesses that shop tend to be the larger ones. PSEG Long Island bills those customers for delivery only, at an average of 9.22¢ per kWh, which is the part of a bill that no supplier can change.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at PSEG Long Island

In 2025 the average commercial price at PSEG Long Island was 11% below the residential figure. 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.

The customers who buy their energy from a supplier are counted separately, and PSEG Long Island bills them for delivery alone:

How PSEG Long Island’s commercial rates are set

PSEG Long Island is owned by the state, and its own board sets its rates. 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 New York can and cannot choose is on the New York page.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at PSEG Long Island

EIA counts 132,484 commercial meters at PSEG Long Island in 2025, and 121,354 of them (92%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 1 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 11,129 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 PSEG Long Island, 978 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 0.7% 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 PSEG Long Island reports offering commercial customers are critical peak rebate pricing.

EIA records 1,962 commercial net-metered generating systems at PSEG Long Island in 2025, with 170 MW of capacity between them: about 15 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 PSEG Long Island’s electric service?

PSEG Long Island customers went without power for an average of 62 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.76 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 68 minutes. This utility reports on a different measurement standard, so the comparison is only approximate. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where PSEG Long Island serves

EIA records PSEG Long Island serving customers in 3 New York counties: Nassau, Queens, Suffolk. 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 the New York ISO as its balancing authority. NYISO is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in New York

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

• Con Edison (30.81¢)
• National Grid (Niagara Mohawk) (15.21¢)
• New York State Electric & Gas (18.93¢)
• Central Hudson (19.71¢)
• Rochester Gas and Electric (18.01¢)
• Orange & Rockland (17.68¢)

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 PSEG Long Island’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 New York page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.
• Bundled and delivery-only are different customers. The two prices describe different parts of the bill and are never added together or averaged.

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: PSEG Long Island commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about PSEG Long Island

What is the average commercial electricity rate at PSEG Long Island?

PSEG Long Island billed its commercial customers on bundled service in New York an average of 23.17¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 10% above the New York commercial average of 20.97¢. 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 PSEG Long Island?

About $1,206 a month in 2025, on average use of about 5,205 kWh a month. That is PSEG Long Island’s commercial revenue divided by its 132,785 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have PSEG Long Island’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average PSEG Long Island billed commercial customers rose 33% between 2015 and 2025, from 17.46¢ to 23.17¢ per kWh. The New York commercial average rose 37% over the same period.

How reliable is PSEG Long Island’s electric service?

PSEG Long Island customers averaged 62 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does PSEG Long Island use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 121,354 advanced (AMI) meters among PSEG Long Island’s 132,484 commercial meters in 2025, which is 92%. 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 PSEG Long Island?

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 PSEG Long Island’s tariff.