FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co is an investor-owned utility, regulated by the state commission, serving 1,802,612 residential accounts in Pennsylvania. Everything below comes from its own 2024 filing with the US Energy Information Administration — the numbers the company reported about itself.
- Average residential rate
- $0.174/kWh
- Homes with solar
- 21,679
- Rooftop capacity
- 198 MW
2024 annual average
1.2% of residential accounts
residential, net-metered
What households here pay
Residential customers on FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co's own supply paid an average of $0.174 per kWh across 2024 — total residential revenue divided by total residential kilowatt-hours sold, so it includes the fixed monthly charge, riders and fuel adjustments, not just the headline energy rate. It is the number your own bill would produce if you divided the annual total by the kWh.
Pennsylvania's statewide average was $0.217/kWh in June 2026 on EIA's monthly series. This utility's 2024 average ran about 20% below that. The two figures are measured differently and are two years apart, so read the gap as direction, not as a precise difference.
That made it the 3rd most expensive of the 6 Pennsylvania utilities on this site in 2024.
Two bills in one
338,558 of these households — 19% — buy their electricity from a competitive supplier and pay FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co only to deliver it. The average above covers the 1,464,054 still on the utility's own supply. If you shop for supply, your rate is set by your contract, and solar savings track your rate, not this one.How many neighbours already did it
21,679 homes on this system had a net-metered solar array at the end of 2024 — 12 per thousand residential accounts, or 1.2% of them. That is close to the median US utility on this site.
That ranks 4 of 6 Pennsylvania utilities reporting net-metered solar.
1,296 of those systems — 6% — also report a paired battery. Battery attach rates rise where exports earn less than retail, because storing a kilowatt-hour and using it later is worth more than selling it. Exports here still earn full retail, so the incentive to store is weaker.
The rule that decides this, and it changed
The 30% federal residential credit (§25D) expired for systems placed in service after 31 December 2025. Every payback figure written before 2026 — including anything quoted at you by an installer working from an old spreadsheet — is overstated by roughly a third for a purchase. Leases and PPAs still reach §48E until the end of 2027, which is why the ownership question now decides more than the hardware does.Other Pennsylvania utilities
| Utility | Accounts | Avg rate | Solar per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PECO Energy Co | 1,535,818 | $0.162 | 14.1 |
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 1,295,883 | $0.170 | 21.2 |
| Duquesne Light Co | 550,405 | $0.217 | 16.8 |
| UGI Utilities, Inc | 55,011 | $0.189 | 4.6 |
| Adams Electric Cooperative Inc | 32,231 | $0.144 | 10.9 |
Where these numbers come from
US Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861, data year 2024 — the annual filing every US electric utility makes. Rates are residential revenue divided by residential sales on bundled service; solar counts are from the net-metering schedule of the same filing. Utility number 66101. Download the source archive and check any figure here against it.
Form 861 is annual and publishes roughly eleven months after the year it covers, so 2024 is the most recent utility-level data that exists anywhere. It is not today's tariff. For a current price, read your own bill; for a current rate structure, read the utility's tariff sheet. This page is for scale and comparison — what a typical household on this system pays, and how many of them have already installed solar.
Written and maintained by guarledes . Last reviewed 2026-08-19.