National Grid (Niagara Mohawk) Rates, Bills and Service Area

National Grid (Niagara Mohawk) reported 1,449,428 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 652 kWh a month on average at 19.89 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, Niagara Mohawk ranks 5 from the lowest price.

Another 87,141 residential customers use Niagara Mohawk for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 10.37 cents per kWh, or $78.63 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 Niagara Mohawk has distribution equipment. That covers 37 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, Niagara Mohawk reported an average of 140 minutes without power per customer and 1.11 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 126 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Niagara Mohawk had about 13 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The New York figure across its utilities was 138 minutes. One interruption lasting 126 minutes and 1.11 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 140 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. Niagara Mohawk 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 27,577 residential net-metered systems on the Niagara Mohawk grid in 2025, with 218.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Niagara Mohawk is an investor-owned utility based in New York.

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

New York has 14 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Niagara Mohawk is 2nd by size and serves about 20.6% of the state's homes. Its price of 19.89 cents per kWh is 6.32 cents below the median of 5 other investor-owned utilities in New York (26.21 cents). At $129.73 a month, an average Niagara Mohawk home pays about $300 a year less than the New York average of $154.75, and uses 66 kWh a month more. Niagara Mohawk lists distribution equipment in 37 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 27,577 of its residential customers use net metering, or 17.9 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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