Investor-owned utility (West Penn Power Company), regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. The average Pennsylvania home pays about $145 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).
Recent decisions are below, and the alert will tell you when the next case is filed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rate cases are decided by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, 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 Office of Consumer Advocate; its filings are the plain-English version of the utility's numbers.
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