Rhode Island Energy (Narragansett Electric) Rates and Bills

Rhode Island Energy (Narragansett Electric) reported 338,735 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 563 kWh a month on average at 29.45 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 1 Rhode Island utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Narragansett Electric ranks 1 from the lowest price.

Another 119,439 residential customers use Narragansett Electric for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 16.29 cents per kWh, or $84.61 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 Narragansett Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 5 counties in Rhode Island. 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, Narragansett Electric reported an average of 60 minutes without power per customer and 0.73 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.

Narragansett Electric had about 67 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Rhode Island figure across its utilities was 60 minutes. One interruption lasting 82 minutes and 0.73 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 60 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. Narragansett Electric 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 19,892 residential net-metered systems on the Narragansett Electric grid in 2025, with 125.4 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 Rhode Island, that review is done by the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission.

Narragansett Electric is an investor-owned utility based in Rhode Island.

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

Of the 3 utilities listed for Rhode Island, Narragansett Electric is the 1st largest by homes, at roughly 98.6% of the state total. Rhode Island has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Narragansett Electric with its type, so the state average of 29.48 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. The typical Narragansett Electric bill of $165.83 a month is within about $12 a year of the Rhode Island average, so a household here pays close to what a typical household in the state pays. Narragansett Electric lists distribution equipment in 5 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 19,892 of its residential customers use net metering, or 43.4 per 1,000 homes, against 44.3 for Rhode Island as a whole.

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

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