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Long Island Power Authority

Long Island Power Authority served 1,032,471 residential customers in New York in 2025 (13.8% of the state's residential customers), the 3rd largest of 71 utilities reporting there. Bundled service; ownership: state; balancing authority NYIS.

The meter, one average month.

Scroll to run 30 days of Long Island Power Authority's average residential use through a five-dial register.

Day 30 of 30
Used so far
744 kWh
At 26.17¢/kWh
$195
An average 2025 month: 744 kWh at 26.17¢ comes to about $195, the average bill. Use is spread evenly over 30 days for the picture.

Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh

Where 26.17¢ sits.

Long Island Power Authority averaged 26.17¢ per kWh against a New York residential average of 26.39¢: 0.8% below the state figure.

2020 and 2025EIA-861

Five years, same meter.

In 2020 the average Long Island Power Authority home used 781 kWh a month at 21.22¢ and paid $166. In 2025 it used 744 kWh at 26.17¢ and paid $195: the price per kWh is up 23.3%.

Long Island Power Authority, New York, residential averages, 2020 and 2025
Measure20202025
Price, ¢/kWh21.2226.17
Use, kWh a month781744
Bill, US$ a month165.74194.75
Long Island Power Authority customers and sales by class in New York, 2025, EIA-861 (bundled service)
ClassCustomersMWh sold¢/kWh
Residential1,032,4719,218,73426.17
Commercial132,7858,293,95623.17
Transportation1315,08016.36

Who else is on the line

Homes are one class.

Homes took 51.7% of the electricity Long Island Power Authority sold in New York in 2025.

Rooftop solar on its linesnet metering

95,569 roofs.

Residential net-metered PV
95,569installations reported for 2025
Capacity
692.0 MWresidential, net metered
Per 1,000 homes
92.6installations per 1,000 residential customers

Service territoryEIA-861

3 counties.

NassauQueensSuffolk

Counties in New York where Long Island Power Authority reported serving customers in 2025 (3 in all; up to 24 listed).

EIA-8612025Utility 11171

The filing, line by line.

Long Island Power Authority, New York, residential class, 2025. Price basis: revenue divided by kWh sold, all residential customers.
MeasureValueUnit
Average price26.17¢/kWh
New York average price26.39¢/kWh
Difference from state average-0.8%
Price change over 5 years23.3%
Typical monthly use744kWh
Typical monthly bill194.75US$
Residential customers1,032,471accounts
Share of NY residential customers13.8%
Size rank in NY3 of 71by customers

Rate plans on fileOpenEI URDB

6 active plans.

Time-of-use
5more than one energy period within a month
Seasonal only
1price changes by month, not by hour
Median fixed charge
$16.80US dollars per month

Active residential plans: not ended, started within the last 5 years, latest version of each plan name. Time-of-use means more than one energy period within a single month; plans whose price changes only by season are counted as seasonal.

New York: state average, five-year steps and every provider

Read this first

  • Class-wide averages, not a quote or a bill for any one customer.
  • Plan data comes from a public, crowd-maintained database and can be out of date.
  • All prices on this site are in cents per kWh unless marked otherwise. Bills are US dollars per month.

Credits and notices

The credits and notices that each data source requires are printed word for word with that source in the Sources list below.