Rockland Electric Rates, Bills, Service Area and Reliability

Rockland Electric reported 64,101 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 901 kWh a month on average at 23.24 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, Rockland Electric ranks 3 from the lowest price.

Another 2,577 residential customers use Rockland Electric for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 7.92 cents per kWh, or $81.90 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 Rockland Electric has distribution equipment. That covers 3 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, Rockland Electric reported an average of 106 minutes without power per customer and 1.07 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 99 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Rockland Electric had about 22 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The New Jersey figure across its utilities was 96 minutes. One interruption lasting 99 minutes and 1.07 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 106 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. Rockland 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 1,654 residential net-metered systems on the Rockland Electric grid in 2025, with 15.0 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.

Rockland Electric is an investor-owned utility based in New Jersey.

Rockland Electric 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. Rockland Electric is 4th by size and serves about 1.8% of the state's homes. Its price of 23.24 cents per kWh is 1.78 cents below the median of 3 other investor-owned utilities in New Jersey (25.03 cents). At $209.37 a month, an average Rockland Electric home pays about $705 a year more than the New Jersey average of $150.59, and uses 231 kWh a month more. Rockland Electric lists distribution equipment in 3 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,654 of its residential customers use net metering, or 24.8 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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