Duquesne Light Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

Duquesne Light reported 437,551 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 611 kWh a month on average at 23.47 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 13 Pennsylvania utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Duquesne Light ranks 13 from the lowest price.

Another 115,573 residential customers use Duquesne Light for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 11.94 cents per kWh, or $76.07 a month, which does not include the supply 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 Duquesne Light has distribution equipment. That covers 3 counties in Pennsylvania. 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, Duquesne Light reported an average of 103 minutes without power per customer and 0.84 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 123 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Duquesne Light had about 24 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Pennsylvania figure across its utilities was 136 minutes. One interruption lasting 123 minutes and 0.84 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 103 minute total.

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

• Time-of-use pricing. Duquesne Light reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 1,477 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 11,185 residential net-metered systems on the Duquesne Light grid in 2025, with 77.3 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 Pennsylvania, that review is done by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Duquesne Light is an investor-owned utility based in Pennsylvania.

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

Of the 18 utilities listed for Pennsylvania, Duquesne Light is the 4th largest by homes, at roughly 9.9% of the state total. Duquesne Light lists distribution equipment in 3 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 11,185 of its residential customers use net metering, or 20.2 per 1,000 homes, against 17.4 for Pennsylvania as a whole.

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

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