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Electricity You Can Count On. Costs You Can Plan For.

We’re listening to and acting on the priorities of our customers, regulators and elected leaders.

Affordability. Reliability. Real Relief.

You shouldn't have to choose between affordability and reliability, so our balanced approach puts both front-and-center simultaneously. We're minimizing the impact on bills today, giving you time to plan, while continuing to invest in the infrastructure needed to deliver safe, reliable service for generations to come.

    

One Bill. Different Costs.

When you order meals or products online, manufacturers and restaurants set the product price and a delivery service receives a fee to deliver it to your door. JCP&L is the delivery service for electricity.

Less than one-third of a typical electric bill reflects JCP&L distribution charges, and we work to be responsible stewards of every dollar of it. The rest consists of pass-through costs, including the cost of electricity from suppliers, which we don't control or profit from.

What We Control

  • Distribution

    The local poles, wires and equipment that bring electricity to your neighborhood. 

    Base delivery rates last approved in 2024.

  • Transmission

    The high-voltage lines that carry power across the state. Charges are set separately from this filing.

What We Don't Control

  • Supply

    The energy itself. Set by the market, not by us, and we don't profit from it.

    Default rates, known as Basic Generation Service (BGS), are set at auction. 
    You can shop for your supplier. Learn more on our Customer Choice page.

  • Taxes & Fees

    Set by federal, state and local government. We collect and remit these – we don't set them. Set by government.


If approved, offsets equaling the amount of rate increases will be applied to bills in 2027. As proposed, the typical residential customer – currently averaging 767 kWh of electric use per month and paying $162.30 – would see an increase of 8.8%, or $14.23 per month, starting in 2028.

If you've opted out of a smart meter, your manual meter reading fee will move from $15 to $26.84 a month. This reflects the actual cost of sending someone to read your meter in person, including travel between locations.


Work Underway and What’s to Come

When JCP&L invests, customers benefit.

JCP&L’s $1.5 billion in capital investments over the past three years have brought measurable reliability improvements. In 2025, reliability improved 15%, compared to 2024. So far this year, reliability has improved 38%.

This plan supports an additional $2.1 billion in base distribution investments, part of a larger five-year, $6.9 billion capital plan that includes:

  • Modernizing the grid through focused investments in highest priority circuits;
  • Increasing remote capability and control through EnergizeNJ;
  • Upgrading transmission assets with a focus on long-term reliability and capacity planning;
  • Continuing energy efficiency commitments to help meet state goals and customer needs.

With additional funding to trim vegetation and remove dead and diseased ash trees, the proposal gives the company more ability to mitigate hazard trees before they can cause service interruptions.

  • Ash trees, which have been decimated by the Emerald Ash Borer, have been responsible for 60% of tree-related outages since 2020.
  • JCP&L has already removed more than 74,000 dead or diseased ash trees since 2017.

 

Assistance & Efficiency Programs Available Now

Whole home energy solutions, HVAC and appliance rebates, energy saving rewards and more are part of JCP&L’s energy efficiency program.

Need help with your bill now? Assistance programs are available now and income thresholds may be higher than you think. Whether you need help affording your bill, lowering your usage or simply need more time, we're here to help you find it.

See What You Qualify For

For more information about applying to utility assistance programs, call 2-1-1 or visit Utility Bills Assistance*.

 

How Does New Jersey's Rate Review Process Work?

Just as you don’t pay for your electricity until after you use it, JCP&L doesn’t recover the costs associated with upgrade projects until after we’ve done the work.

Base rate filings allow utilities to recover the cost of upgrading infrastructure and restoring customers after storms. New Jersey law requires the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to review base rate filings before any new rate can take effect.

Supply costs, the largest part of your bill, are set by energy markets and aren't part of this plan. They move with the market; the part we manage doesn't.

The BPU, along with the Division of Rate Counsel representing customers, will review our proposal before anything takes effect. You have a voice in that process, too. Nothing changes until it's been reviewed and approved.

Learn more about JCP&L’s rate review proposal.


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