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City of Chicopee Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with City of Chicopee, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

23 thousand

23,231 homes

Average price

16.21 cents

Massachusetts average 30.41

Average bill

$117.66

Per month at 726 kWh

Price rank

6 of 15

Lowest to highest in Massachusetts

City of Chicopee rates and average bill

City of Chicopee reported 23,231 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 726 kWh a month on average at 16.21 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 15 Massachusetts utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, City of Chicopee ranks 6 from the lowest price.

City of Chicopee compared with Massachusetts and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
City of Chicopee16.21726$117.66
Massachusetts (all utilities)30.41596$181.08
United States17.23874$150.68

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where City of Chicopee has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Massachusetts. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Massachusetts (1 county)

Hampden

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Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. City of Chicopee does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
  • Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 54 residential net-metered systems on the City of Chicopee grid in 2025, with 0.4 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.

City of Chicopee is a municipal utility based in Massachusetts.

City of Chicopee operates in the ISONE power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

City of Chicopee compared with Massachusetts

Massachusetts has 20 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. City of Chicopee is 6th by size and serves about 0.80% of the state's homes. Among 15 other municipal utilities in Massachusetts, the median price is 16.17 cents per kWh, so City of Chicopee at 16.21 cents is about the same as its peers. At $117.66 a month, an average City of Chicopee home pays about $761 a year less than the Massachusetts average of $181.08, and uses 130 kWh a month more. City of Chicopee lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 54 of its residential customers use net metering, or 2.3 per 1,000 homes, against 74.4 for Massachusetts as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Massachusetts with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

Other Massachusetts utilities

Utilities in Massachusetts close in size to City of Chicopee
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
City of ChicopeeMunicipal23,23116.21
Town of ReadingMunicipal26,57319.95
Fitchburg Gas and Electric LightInvestor-owned26,40936.24
City of PeabodyMunicipal22,69716.88
City of WestfieldMunicipal16,38618.46
Town of ShrewsburyMunicipal15,20615.53

See every one on the electric companies in Massachusetts page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not City of Chicopee and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

City of Chicopee questions

What is the average residential electric rate for City of Chicopee?

City of Chicopee residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 16.21 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 726 kWh a month and an average bill of $117.66 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Massachusetts average was 30.41 cents.

How many customers does City of Chicopee have?

EIA reports about 23,231 residential customers for City of Chicopee in 2025.

Who regulates City of Chicopee?

Owned and run by a city or town. A city council or utility board usually sets the rates, and state commissions often have limited authority over it. See the regulator for Massachusetts on the Massachusetts state page.

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