PPL Electric Utilities investor-owned utility
Pennsylvania utility rate cases
Rates are set by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Households are represented by Office of Consumer Advocate. The average Pennsylvania home pays about $145 a month for 817 kWh (EIA, 2024). Pennsylvania households can choose their electricity supplier. Natural gas supply can be shopped too.
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3 utilities tracked in Pennsylvania. Enter your ZIP on the home page to see the one that serves you.
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Statewide matters
This is the overall statewide trend behind the individual utility price to compare increases: the average Pennsylvania household's total electric bill grew by roughly a fifth between 2024 and 2026.
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The order is meant to keep new data centers from pushing their power costs onto residential electric bills by requiring developers to pay for all of their own electricity.
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This does not change anyone's electric rate directly, but it is meant to stop the cost of new substations and power lines built for data centers from being added to everyone else's bill.
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Recent decisions
This is the overall statewide trend behind the individual utility price to compare increases: the average Pennsylvania household's total electric bill grew by roughly a fifth between 2024 and 2026.
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Governor Shapiro's Executive Order 2026-05 on AI data center development (GRID standards)
Statewide, PA
The order is meant to keep new data centers from pushing their power costs onto residential electric bills by requiring developers to pay for all of their own electricity.
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PPL Electric distribution base rate case settlement
PPL Electric Utilities, PA
A typical PPL residential customer's total monthly bill was set to rise by a few dollars once the new distribution rates took effect July 1, 2026, on top of separate increases in the supply portion of the bill.
+$9a month, est.
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania price to compare increase (Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power, West Penn Power)
West Penn Power, PA
If you buy your generation supply from your utility instead of a competitive supplier, this raised the supply portion of a typical FirstEnergy PA household's bill by roughly 3 to 12 dollars a month depending on which of the four utilities serves you.
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A PECO household that buys its generation supply from PECO rather than a competitive shopper saw its supply charge rise by about 5 percent starting with its June 2026 bill.
+$7a month, est.
This does not change anyone's electric rate directly, but it is meant to stop the cost of new substations and power lines built for data centers from being added to everyone else's bill.
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