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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Pennsylvania statewide default service price increases, 2025 to 2026
On bills now Statewide before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
No residential dollar figure published yet
The filing does not state a typical-bill impact we can verify. We will add one when the commission staff or the consumer advocate publishes it.
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The Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office found that the average residential electric bill in Pennsylvania rose about 20.6 percent from 2024 to 2026, from roughly 213 dollars to roughly 257 dollars a month, driven by a series of default service price increases in June 2025, December 2025 and June 2026. State officials, including the PUC chairman and the Consumer Advocate, told a January 2026 legislative hearing that growing electricity demand from AI data centers is a major factor pushing up the wholesale capacity costs behind these increases, alongside power plant retirements. The Consumer Advocate's office estimated that, following the 2025 increases alone, residential customers of the four major utilities would pay an additional 940 million dollars for generation in the following year.
What it means for your bill: 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.
- Status
- On bills now
- Utility
- Statewide
- Commission
- Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
- Data center linked
- Yes. The filing ties part of the cost or the tariff design to data center load.
- Last checked
- August 29, 2026
Sources
- Independent Fiscal Office Reports Average Cost Of Electricity In PA Jumped 14.6% Over Past Year, Total Average PA Electricity Bill Has Increased 20.6% Since 2024, PA Environment Digest, 2026-07-28
- PA House Committees Hearing: Witnesses Agree - A.I. Data Centers - Real And Purely Speculative - Are Driving Up The Cost Of Electricity, PA Environment Digest, 2026-01-20
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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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