Which electric utility has the highest commercial rates?

EIA’s averages answer a narrower question: which utility’s commercial customers paid the most per kWh on average. The price-by-utility page ranks every utility with at least 500 commercial customers. An average is not a rate: a utility with more large customers averages less per kWh without charging anyone less.

Why can’t I compare a Texas wires utility with other utilities?

Oncor, CenterPoint, AEP Texas and TNMP only deliver power; customers buy the energy from a retail provider. EIA’s price for them is delivery alone, so it is marked delivery only and left out of the all-in comparison.

The System Average Interruption Duration Index: the total minutes of outage the average customer had in the year. The comparison uses EIA’s figures excluding major event days under the IEEE standard, which is the comparable measure; a utility that reports another way is labelled.

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Set up to four U.S. utilities side by side on price, price history, the average business bill, reliability and smart-meter rollout, from the government’s own utility data.

Utilities228
Data year2025
Price historyfrom 2015

Pick two to four of the 228 U.S. utilities with a page here to see them side by side: the average commercial price and its change over five and ten years, the average business customer’s use and bill, outage minutes, smart meters and time-varying rates, all from EIA’s Form EIA-861 for 2025.

Source: EIA Form EIA-861 detailed data files, 2015 to 2025

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Among the all-in prices, Con Edison averaged 30.81¢ per kWh and Georgia Power 12.42¢, 2.5 times as much. On outage minutes per customer, excluding major events, ComEd had the fewest (38) and Georgia Power the most (155). Each price is an average over all of the utility’s commercial customers, so a utility with more large customers averages fewer cents per kWh without charging any one customer less.

ComEdGeorgia PowerCon EdisonCents per kWh, EIA, not adjusted for inflation

Utilities compared, EIA Form EIA-861, latest final year
Measure	ComEd	Georgia Power	Con Edison
State	Illinois	Georgia	New York
Type	Investor-owned	Investor-owned	Investor-owned
Commercial customers	241,249	342,533	464,342
Average commercial price, latest year	15.13¢	12.42¢	30.81¢
State average, same year	13.10¢	11.53¢	20.97¢
Change over 5 years	+51% since 2020	+29% since 2020	+53% since 2020
Change over 10 years	+53% since 2015	+30% since 2015	+50% since 2015
Average use per commercial customer	2,943 kWh a month	8,664 kWh a month	1,906 kWh a month
Average bill per commercial customer	$445 a month	$1,076 a month	$587 a month
Outage minutes per customer (SAIDI)	38	155	18 (non-IEEE method)
Outages per customer (SAIFI)	0.54	1.44	0.12
Commercial meters that are smart meters	100%	95%	99%
Commercial customers on time-varying rates	9,477	13,604	—
Time-varying rate kinds offered to businesses	real-time	time-of-use, real-time	none reported
Commercial net-metered systems	12,614 (639 MW)	595 (32 MW)	5,011 (330 MW)
Counties served	24	155	6
Wholesale market	PJM	none	NYISO

How to read the comparison

Prices are averages, not rates. Each is a utility’s commercial revenue divided by the kWh it sold commercial customers in the year. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large users averages less per kWh, without charging any of them less.
Delivery-only prices stand apart. Where customers buy energy from a supplier, EIA’s utility figure covers delivery alone. It is labelled and never set against an all-in price.
The average bill is a mean. A few very large customers pull it up; a typical small business uses less than the figure shown.
Reliability excludes major events. Outage minutes and counts follow the IEEE standard and leave out major event days such as hurricanes, which is how utilities are compared fairly year to year.

Each utility’s own page has the full record, and the price-by-utility table covers every utility with at least 500 commercial customers. The same records are open as JSON at /data/api/v1/utilities.json (see open data).

Common questions

Which electric utility has the highest commercial rates?: EIA’s averages answer a narrower question: which utility’s commercial customers paid the most per kWh on average. The price-by-utility page ranks every utility with at least 500 commercial customers. An average is not a rate: a utility with more large customers averages less per kWh without charging anyone less.
Why can’t I compare a Texas wires utility with other utilities?: Oncor, CenterPoint, AEP Texas and TNMP only deliver power; customers buy the energy from a retail provider. EIA’s price for them is delivery alone, so it is marked delivery only and left out of the all-in comparison.
What is SAIDI?: The System Average Interruption Duration Index: the total minutes of outage the average customer had in the year. The comparison uses EIA’s figures excluding major event days under the IEEE standard, which is the comparable measure; a utility that reports another way is labelled.

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