Delmarva Power Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

Delmarva Power reported 460,632 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 926 kWh a month on average at 19.69 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, Delmarva Power ranks 3 from the lowest price.

Another 32,531 residential customers use Delmarva Power for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 7.94 cents per kWh, or $70.77 a month, which does not include the supply price.

Figures cover all of Delmarva Power's states together. A utility with a large territory can have different rates in different places.

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 Delmarva Power has distribution equipment. That covers 13 counties in Delaware, Maryland. 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, Delmarva Power reported an average of 66 minutes without power per customer and 0.71 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 93 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Delmarva Power had about 61 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Delaware figure across its utilities was 71 minutes. One interruption lasting 93 minutes and 0.71 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 66 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. Delmarva Power 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 17,741 residential net-metered systems on the Delmarva Power grid in 2025, with 152.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Delaware, that review is done by the Delaware Public Service Commission.

Delmarva Power is an investor-owned utility based in Delaware, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

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

By residential customers, Delmarva Power ranks 1st of the 6 utilities that report homes in Delaware, with about 63.4% of the state's homes. Delaware has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Delmarva Power with its type, so the state average of 17.15 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $182.38 a month, an average Delmarva Power home pays about $295 a year more than the Delaware average of $157.80, and uses 6 kWh a month more. Delmarva Power reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Delaware, for comparisons. 17,741 of its residential customers use net metering, or 36.0 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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