Connecticut Light and Power (CLP) customers can reduce their home electricity bills by finding a cheaper electric rate for the supply section on their electric bill. There are still a number of Connecticut residences who are unaware of their electricity choice options.
For CL&P residential customers, you can find your competitive electric rate underneath the section “Supplier Service Detail”. If it says “Generation Service Charge $0.11051 then you are paying the CL&P default price to compare rate. This is the rate that you should compare against alternative electric rate offers.
Compared to the default rate, MX Energy is offering the lowest fixed electric rate at $0.095. This represents a savings of 14% that you can save on your monthly electric bill by taking the time to compare electricity companies. CLP continues to manage the delivery of the power and will also continue to send out the monthly electric bill even after you choose a lower electric rate.
Connecticut set up their deregulated electricity market so that the Utilities (CLP and UI) do not care if their customers leave their default service and choose an alternative electric company. Connecticut Light and Power, as well as United Illuminating Company, receive their profits through the delivery charges on your bill which are still regulated by the state.
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Residential electricity customers in the PSE&G utility area are finding significant savings on the electric bills. The summer of 2010 is the first summer in New Jersey where there has been real electricity choice for residential consumers. Though power choices are still limited compared to some other deregulated states (Texas, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland) New Jersey customers have found that energy deregulation can be a good when attempting to have lower electricity bills.
The lowest option for PSEG residential customers is with Verde Energy. They are offering a rate of 10.75 compared to the PSEG default price to compare rate of 12.24 for the summer months of June through September. Bigger households have to pay even more as their rates rise to 13.21 cents per kilowatt hour after the consume 600 KWH every month, which is about how much a 1 bedroom apartment would use in the summer. These results in savings between 12-19%.
PSE&G residential rates will be about 12.27 from October 2010 to May 2011. What most people don’t realize is that even after you switch electric companies and start paying a lower rate, you remain a PSEG customer as they continue to monitor the lines and wires for the electricity and the billing component. So at the end of the day, the only thing that changes is that you pay a lower New Jersey electric bill.
Though participation in the New Jersey electric choice program has been slow when considering the significant savings available, things have started to pick up as more people start to realize the electric savings potential.
In Central Pennsylvania, electricity customers of PPL are finding that they can lower their monthly electric bill by comparing electricity companies and finding a competitive electric rate.
The price to compare rate for PPL residential customers, also known as the default supply rate, is $0.10448 per kilowatt hour. The lowest fixed electric rate that we have been able to find for customers in the PPL area is $0.0889 per kilowatt hour, an easy way to save 15% off of the electricity bill. To lock in these savings go to Champion Energy. The plan locks in the low rate for 12 months.
A month-to-month variable rate with 11% savings versus the PPL price to compare rate is available with Verde Energy, also known as Low Cost Power. They also have a $50 cash back bonus program when you sign up with them.
The price to compare rate is expected to be lower in 2011, but it is unlikely it will go well below 10 cents, if at all. Competitive electric rate offers allow residential customers to lock in low fixed rates for up to two years, allowing protection from rates increasing drastically.
The electricity wholesale market is highly correlated with the natural gas market. In recent years the natural gas market has been extremely volatile. In Texas, where electricity has been deregulated since 2002, customers saw all time high electric rate prices in the summer of 2008 followed by some of the lowest rates just one year later in the summer of 2009.
Philadelphia electricity users are customers of PECO energy, who provides electric supply service as well as electric delivery service for businesses and households in the city. While PECO energy will remain the electric delivery company for these electric users, many customers will change their electric supply company in 2011 when PECO’s capped rates expire.
Starting January 1, 2011, commercial and industrial energy users in Philadelphia who do not choose an alternative energy company to supply their electricity needs will be on the PECO default electric rates. Most businesses in Philadelphia will find in advantegeous to shop and compare Pennsylvania electricity companies.
Large Commercial and Industrial electricity users in the PECO territory (whose KW demand is greater than 500KW) will pay a default price to compare rate of $0.0897 per kilowatt hour, if they elected to go with the fixed default electric rate. If they did not elect for the fixed default rate, they will be forced to ride the volatile hourly ahead market rates. Large electricity users in Philadelphia have bee offered fixed electric rates of $0.072 in recent weeks, a price 19.8 percent less than the PECO price to compare default rate.
Small and medium commercial customers in PECO will not know their exact price to compare rate until later in the year. It is estimated it will be between $0.09 and $0.095 per KWh in 2011. The number of electricity companies offering competitive rates to these customers will increase as 2011 approaches. Savings are expected to be between 8-15% off of the price to compare default rates.