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Jersey Central Power & Lt Co
Jersey Central Power & Lt Co served 91,835 residential customers in New Jersey in 2025 (2.4% of the state's residential customers), the 2nd largest of 67 utilities reporting there. Delivery-only service; ownership: investor owned; balancing authority PJM.
The meter, one average month.
Scroll to run 30 days of Jersey Central Power & Lt Co's average residential use through a five-dial register.
- Used so far
- 814 kWh
- At 4.9¢/kWh
- $39.87
Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh
Where 4.9¢ sits.
This page covers delivery-only service, which is only part of a household's bill, so its 4.9¢ is not compared with the New Jersey bundled average of 22.63¢. Both are drawn for scale only.
2020 and 2025EIA-861
Five years, same meter.
In 2020 the average Jersey Central Power & Lt Co home used 864 kWh a month at 4.17¢ and paid $36.06. In 2025 it used 814 kWh at 4.9¢ and paid $39.87: the price per kWh is up 17.4%.
| Measure | 2020 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Price, ¢/kWh | 4.17 | 4.9 |
| Use, kWh a month | 864 | 814 |
| Bill, US$ a month | 36.06 | 39.87 |
| Class | Customers | MWh sold | ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 91,835 | 896,618 | 4.9 |
| Commercial | 38,464 | 5,319,681 | 4.24 |
| Industrial | 1,026 | 1,418,445 | 2.89 |
| Transportation | 1 | 78,172 | 2.14 |
Who else is on the line
Homes are one class.
Homes took 11.6% of the electricity Jersey Central Power & Lt Co sold in New Jersey in 2025.
Rooftop solar on its linesnet metering
59,252 roofs.
- Residential net-metered PV
- 59,252installations reported for 2025
- Capacity
- 500.3 MWresidential, net metered
- Per 1,000 homes
- 645.2installations per 1,000 residential customers
Service territoryEIA-861
13 counties.
BurlingtonEssexHunterdonMercerMiddlesexMonmouthMorrisOceanPassaicSomersetSussexUnionWarren
Counties in New Jersey where Jersey Central Power & Lt Co reported serving customers in 2025 (13 in all; up to 24 listed).
EIA-8612025Utility 9726
The filing, line by line.
| Measure | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Average price | 4.9 | ¢/kWh |
| New Jersey average price | 22.63 | ¢/kWh |
| Price change over 5 years | 17.4 | % |
| Typical monthly use | 814 | kWh |
| Typical monthly bill | 39.87 | US$ |
| Residential customers | 91,835 | accounts |
| Share of NJ residential customers | 2.4 | % |
| Size rank in NJ | 2 of 67 | by customers |
Rate plans on fileOpenEI URDB
None shown for this page. Plan counts appear once per utility, on its largest state's bundled page; how plans are counted.
New Jersey: state average, five-year steps and every provider