Delaware Electric Cooperative Rates, Bills and Service Area

Delaware Electric Cooperative reported 108,801 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,054 kWh a month on average at 13.89 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 4 Delaware utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Delaware Electric Cooperative ranks 1 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 Delaware Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties in Delaware. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Delaware Electric Cooperative reported an average of 75 minutes without power per customer and 1.13 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 67 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Delaware Electric Cooperative had about 52 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Delaware figure across its utilities was 71 minutes. One interruption lasting 67 minutes and 1.13 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 75 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Delaware Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 6 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 3,328 residential net-metered systems on the Delaware Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 27.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Delaware Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Delaware.

Delaware Electric Cooperative operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 6 utilities listed for Delaware, Delaware Electric Cooperative is the 2nd largest by homes, at roughly 22.6% of the state total. Delaware has too few other cooperatives with reported prices to compare Delaware Electric Cooperative with its type, so the state average of 17.15 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $146.37 a month, an average Delaware Electric Cooperative home pays about $137 a year less than the Delaware average of $157.80, and uses 134 kWh a month more. Delaware Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 3,328 of its residential customers use net metering, or 30.6 per 1,000 homes, against 32.7 for Delaware as a whole.

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

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