City of Peabody Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

City of Peabody reported 22,697 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 716 kWh a month on average at 16.88 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 Peabody ranks 9 from the lowest price.

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.

EIA lists the counties where City of Peabody 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.

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• Time-of-use pricing. City of Peabody 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 48 residential net-metered systems on the City of Peabody grid in 2025, with 0.4 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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City of Peabody is a municipal utility based in Massachusetts.

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

Of the 20 utilities listed for Massachusetts, City of Peabody is the 7th largest by homes, at roughly 0.78% of the state total. Its price of 16.88 cents per kWh is 0.72 cents above the median of 15 other municipal utilities in Massachusetts (16.17 cents). City of Peabody lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 48 of its residential customers use net metering, or 2.1 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.

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