Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) Electric Rates and Bills

Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) reported 1,032,471 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 744 kWh a month on average at 26.17 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 11 New York utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, LIPA ranks 8 from the lowest price.

Another 19 residential customers use LIPA for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 16.43 cents per kWh, or $254.39 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 LIPA has distribution equipment. That covers 3 counties in New York. 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, LIPA reported an average of 62 minutes without power per customer and 0.76 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 82 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

LIPA had about 65 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The New York figure across its utilities was 138 minutes. One interruption lasting 82 minutes and 0.76 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 62 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. LIPA 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 95,569 residential net-metered systems on the LIPA grid in 2025, with 692.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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LIPA is a state-owned utility based in New York.

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

By residential customers, LIPA ranks 3rd of the 14 utilities that report homes in New York, with about 13.8% of the state's homes. New York has too few other state-owned utilities with reported prices to compare LIPA with its type, so the state average of 26.39 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $194.75 a month, an average LIPA home pays about $480 a year more than the New York average of $154.75, and uses 158 kWh a month more. LIPA lists distribution equipment in 3 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 95,569 of its residential customers use net metering, or 92.6 per 1,000 homes, against 35.2 for New York 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 York with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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