Eversource Connecticut Rates, Bills and Service Area in 2025

Eversource Connecticut reported 995,130 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 677 kWh a month on average at 28.88 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 5 Connecticut utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Eversource Connecticut ranks 4 from the lowest price.

Another 198,451 residential customers use Eversource Connecticut for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 18.65 cents per kWh, or $160.95 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 Eversource Connecticut has distribution equipment. That covers 8 counties in Connecticut. 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, Eversource Connecticut reported an average of 85 minutes without power per customer and 0.69 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 125 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Eversource Connecticut had about 42 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Connecticut figure across its utilities was 87 minutes. One interruption lasting 125 minutes and 0.69 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 85 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. Eversource Connecticut reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 611 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 90,904 residential net-metered systems on the Eversource Connecticut grid in 2025, with 749.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Eversource Connecticut is an investor-owned utility based in Connecticut.

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

Connecticut has 6 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Eversource Connecticut is 1st by size and serves about 75.5% of the state's homes. Connecticut has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Eversource Connecticut with its type, so the state average of 29.31 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $195.35 a month, an average Eversource Connecticut home pays about $133 a year less than the Connecticut average of $206.46, and uses 28 kWh a month less. Eversource Connecticut lists distribution equipment in 8 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 90,904 of its residential customers use net metering, or 76.2 per 1,000 homes, against 77.3 for Connecticut as a whole.

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

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