Town of Reading Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill

Town of Reading reported 26,573 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 826 kWh a month on average at 19.95 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 15 Massachusetts utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Town of Reading ranks 13 from the lowest 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 Town of Reading has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Massachusetts. 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, Town of Reading reported an average of 21 minutes without power per customer and 0.34 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 61 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Town of Reading had about 107 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Massachusetts figure across its utilities was 76 minutes. One interruption lasting 61 minutes and 0.34 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 21 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. Town of Reading reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 909 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 339 residential net-metered systems on the Town of Reading grid in 2025, with 2.8 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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

By residential customers, Town of Reading ranks 4th of the 20 utilities that report homes in Massachusetts, with about 0.91% of the state's homes. At $164.67 a month, an average Town of Reading home pays about $197 a year less than the Massachusetts average of $181.08, and uses 230 kWh a month more. Town of Reading lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 339 of its residential customers use net metering, or 12.8 per 1,000 homes, against 74.4 for Massachusetts as a whole.

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

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