Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) Rates and Bills Guide

Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) reported 955,852 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 788 kWh a month on average at 18.39 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 5 New Jersey utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, JCP&L ranks 1 from the lowest price.

Another 91,835 residential customers use JCP&L for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 4.90 cents per kWh, or $39.87 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 JCP&L has distribution equipment. That covers 13 counties in New Jersey. 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, JCP&L reported an average of 234 minutes without power per customer and 1.89 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 124 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

JCP&L had about 107 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The New Jersey figure across its utilities was 96 minutes. One interruption lasting 124 minutes and 1.89 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 234 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. JCP&L reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 12,882 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 59,252 residential net-metered systems on the JCP&L grid in 2025, with 500.3 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 New Jersey, that review is done by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

JCP&L is an investor-owned utility based in New Jersey.

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

New Jersey has 5 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. JCP&L is 2nd by size and serves about 27.7% of the state's homes. JCP&L lists distribution equipment in 13 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 59,252 of its residential customers use net metering, or 56.6 per 1,000 homes, against 60.5 for New Jersey as a whole.

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

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