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Direct Energy Services

Direct Energy Services served 70,273 residential customers in Pennsylvania in 2025 (1.3% of the state's residential customers), the 8th largest of 100 utilities reporting there. Energy-only service; ownership: retail power marketer; balancing authority NYIS, PJM.

The meter, one average month.

Scroll to run 30 days of Direct Energy Services's average residential use through a five-dial register.

Day 30 of 30
Used so far
950 kWh
At 11.26¢/kWh
$107
An average 2025 month: 950 kWh at 11.26¢ comes to about $107, the average bill. Use is spread evenly over 30 days for the picture.

Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh

Where 11.26¢ sits.

This page covers energy-only service, which is only part of a household's bill, so its 11.26¢ is not compared with the Pennsylvania bundled average of 19.3¢. Both are drawn for scale only.

2020 and 2025EIA-861

Five years, same meter.

In 2020 the average Direct Energy Services home used 898 kWh a month at 8.89¢ and paid $79.87. In 2025 it used 950 kWh at 11.26¢ and paid $107: the price per kWh is up 26.7%.

Direct Energy Services, Pennsylvania, residential averages, 2020 and 2025
Measure20202025
Price, ¢/kWh8.8911.26
Use, kWh a month898950
Bill, US$ a month79.87107.01
Direct Energy Services customers and sales by class in Pennsylvania, 2025, EIA-861 (energy-only service)
ClassCustomersMWh sold¢/kWh
Residential70,273801,24111.26
Commercial4,79869,0647.66

Who else is on the line

Homes are one class.

EIA-8612025Utility 54820

The filing, line by line.

Direct Energy Services, Pennsylvania, residential class, 2025. Price basis: revenue divided by kWh sold, all residential customers.
MeasureValueUnit
Average price11.26¢/kWh
Pennsylvania average price19.3¢/kWh
Price change over 5 years26.7%
Typical monthly use950kWh
Typical monthly bill107.01US$
Residential customers70,273accounts
Share of PA residential customers1.3%
Size rank in PA8 of 100by 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.

Pennsylvania: 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  • Plan data comes from a public, crowd-maintained database and can be out of date.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

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