Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Rates and Average Bill

Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light reported 3,657 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 453 kWh a month on average at 36.24 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both.

Another 22,752 residential customers use Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 21.50 cents per kWh, or $117.30 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 Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light has distribution equipment. That covers 2 counties 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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For 2025, Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light reported an average of 74 minutes without power per customer and 1.08 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 69 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light had about 53 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Massachusetts figure across its utilities was 76 minutes. One interruption lasting 69 minutes and 1.08 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 74 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. Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 3 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 3,958 residential net-metered systems on the Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light grid in 2025, with 26.3 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 Massachusetts, that review is done by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.

Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light is an investor-owned utility based in Massachusetts.

Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light operates in the ISONE power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light ranks 5th of the 20 utilities that report homes in Massachusetts, with about 0.90% of the state's homes. Its price of 36.24 cents per kWh is 2.57 cents above the median of 3 other investor-owned utilities in Massachusetts (33.66 cents). At $164.23 a month, an average Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light home pays about $202 a year less than the Massachusetts average of $181.08, and uses 142 kWh a month less. Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light lists distribution equipment in 2 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 3,958 of its residential customers use net metering, or 149.9 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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