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JCP&L is asking to raise base delivery rates but has proposed offsetting the impact for residential customers until 2028, so this would not show up on typical bills right away even if approved.
+$14a month
JCP&L (Jersey Central Power and Light)
Investor-owned utility (Jersey Central Power & Lt Co), regulated by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. The average New Jersey home pays about $128 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).
1 pending rate case, about $14 a month more if approved
That is the ask, not the outcome: commissions usually approve less than the utility requests. Each case below links its docket and sources.
$128
average New Jersey home today (EIA, 2024)
$142
if everything pending is approved as asked
+$14
a month
The ask, not the outcome. Your own bill scales with your usage; a home using twice the state average would see roughly twice the change.
Pending
Decided
This is a smaller increase than 2025's BGS jump, but it stacks on top of it for JCP&L default-supply customers.
+$2a month
This is a default electric supply price increase from the statewide auction, not a JCP&L delivery rate case; shopping for a competitive supplier avoids it.
+$26a month, est.
How to have a say
Rate cases are decided by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, which takes written comments on every docket and holds public hearings on the big ones. Comment deadlines and hearing dates are on each case page above when we have them. The office that argues for households in these cases is the Division of Rate Counsel; its filings are the plain-English version of the utility's numbers.
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Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.