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Duquesne Light Co

Duquesne Light Co served 115,573 residential customers in Pennsylvania in 2025 (2.1% of the state's residential customers), the 4th largest of 100 utilities reporting there. Delivery-only service; ownership: investor owned; balancing authority PJM.

The meter, one average month.

Scroll to run 30 days of Duquesne Light Co's average residential use through a five-dial register.

Day 30 of 30
Used so far
637 kWh
At 11.94¢/kWh
$76.07
An average 2025 month: 637 kWh at 11.94¢ comes to about $76.07, the average bill. Use is spread evenly over 30 days for the picture.

Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh

Where 11.94¢ sits.

This page covers delivery-only service, which is only part of a household's bill, so its 11.94¢ 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 Duquesne Light Co home used 705 kWh a month at 9.04¢ and paid $63.69. In 2025 it used 637 kWh at 11.94¢ and paid $76.07: the price per kWh is up 32.1%.

Duquesne Light Co, Pennsylvania, residential averages, 2020 and 2025
Measure20202025
Price, ¢/kWh9.0411.94
Use, kWh a month705637
Bill, US$ a month63.6976.07
Duquesne Light Co customers and sales by class in Pennsylvania, 2025, EIA-861 (delivery-only service)
ClassCustomersMWh sold¢/kWh
Residential115,573883,38211.94
Commercial23,9254,743,1083.75
Industrial6452,324,1001.59
Transportation112,89610.5

Who else is on the line

Homes are one class.

Homes took 11.1% of the electricity Duquesne Light Co sold in Pennsylvania in 2025.

Rooftop solar on its linesnet metering

11,185 roofs.

Residential net-metered PV
11,185installations reported for 2025
Capacity
77.3 MWresidential, net metered
Per 1,000 homes
96.8installations per 1,000 residential customers

Service territoryEIA-861

3 counties.

AlleghenyBeaverWestmoreland

Counties in Pennsylvania where Duquesne Light Co reported serving customers in 2025 (3 in all; up to 24 listed).

EIA-8612025Utility 5487

The filing, line by line.

Duquesne Light Co, Pennsylvania, residential class, 2025. Price basis: delivery charges only, not comparable with bundled prices.
MeasureValueUnit
Average price11.94¢/kWh
Pennsylvania average price19.3¢/kWh
Price change over 5 years32.1%
Typical monthly use637kWh
Typical monthly bill76.07US$
Residential customers115,573accounts
Share of PA residential customers2.1%
Size rank in PA4 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

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