Delaware Electric Cooperative Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Cooperative|EIA utility 5070|Delaware|Bundled
In 2024, Delaware Electric Cooperative's residential customers paid an average of 14.22 cents per kWh: $185 million of revenue over 1.30 million MWh of sales across 104,839 bundled residential customers, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 14.22c figure is calculated
14.22c/kWh = $184,505k revenue / 1,297,535 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Delaware Electric Cooperative billed its residential customers (energy, delivery, fuel and rider charges, fixed charges) divided by the kilowatt-hours it sold. It is not a tariff rate, and a 2024 annual average will differ from a current bill. For a 1,000 kWh month at this average, the energy cost works out to about $142 before taxes.
About Delaware Electric Cooperative's 2024 electricity prices
Delaware Electric Cooperative is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 5070. In 2024 it served 104,839 bundled residential customers in Delaware, and its average realised residential price was 14.22 cents per kWh: $185 million of residential revenue divided by 1.30 million MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Delaware Electric Cooperative's 2024 average prices were 13.85 cents for commercial customers (13,488 accounts) and 18.61 cents for industrial customers (317 accounts). Unusually, industrial customers paid 4.39 cents more per kWh than households.
Within Delaware, Delaware Electric Cooperative ranked number 2 of 6 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (104,839) and accounted for 25.08% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 16.57 cents per kWh, so Delaware Electric Cooperative's customers paid 2.35 cents below the Delaware average (-14.2%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Delaware is 19.29 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.
EIA's service-territory file places Delaware Electric Cooperative in 2 Delaware counties: Kent and Sussex. On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported generation and distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.
EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 13.89 cents per kWh for Delaware Electric Cooperative in Delaware across 108,801 residential customers, 0.33 cents lower than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.
The nearest other utilities in Delaware by service-territory centroid are City of Milford (DE) (0 miles away, 15.17 cents), City of Dover (DE) (15.3 miles away, 15.52 cents), Delmarva Power (22 miles away, 17.23 cents), Town of Middletown (DE) (49.2 miles away, 17.12 cents), and City of Newark (DE) (49.2 miles away, 18.99 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 104,839 | 1,297,535 | 184,505 | 14.22 |
| Commercial | 13,488 | 304,626 | 42,188 | 13.85 |
| Industrial | 317 | 4,692 | 873 | 18.61 |
Counties served in Delaware (2)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
2025 early release (preliminary, not validated by EIA)
Residential price in Delaware: 13.89c/kWh (-0.33c vs 2024 final), 108,801 residential customers; commercial 13.70c; industrial 20.27c. Published 4 August 2026. EIA marks this file "not fully edited, use with caution"; the 2024 final figures above remain the reference.
Nearby and comparable utilities in Delaware
- EIA utility number
- 5070
- Ownership type
- Cooperative
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Delaware
- Service type
- Bundled (Part A)
- Bundled residential customers (DE, price basis)
- 104,839
- Residential accounts served (DE)
- 104,839
- All accounts, all sectors (DE)
- 118,644
- Residential price, 2024
- 14.22 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 13.85 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 18.61 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 1.30 million MWh
- Residential revenue
- $185 million
- Rank in Delaware by residential accounts served
- 2 of 6
- Share of Delaware residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 25.08%
- Delaware average, 2024
- 16.57 c/kWh
- Counties served (DE)
- 2
- NERC region
- RFC
- RTO / ISO
- PJM Interconnection
- Balancing authority
- PJM
- Reported activities
- Generation, Distribution
- 2025 early release (preliminary)
- 13.89 c/kWh
- Change vs 2024 final
- -0.33 c/kWh
- Registry status
- Reported on Form EIA-861 for 2024
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Bill Diagnostic ->Time-of-Use Guide ->Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 Annual, 2024 final data (public domain), retrieved 28 August 2026; prices are average realised revenue per kWh, not tariffs. Final 2024 file f8612024.zip (released 3 December 2025) from the EIA-861 detailed data files. Preliminary 2025 figures come from the early-release file f8612025er.zip (4 August 2026), which EIA has not yet validated; they are labelled as such wherever shown and never mixed into a final figure.
Method: cents per kWh = revenue (thousand dollars) divided by sales (megawatthours), times 100. Customer counts, sales and revenue are the utility's own annual survey responses by state and sector. Bundled = energy plus delivery from one utility; delivery-only = the wires charge for customers who buy energy from a competitive supplier; energy-only = a competitive supplier's energy charge without delivery. County lists come from the EIA-861 Service Territory file; territory centroids used for "nearby utilities" are unweighted means of Census 2023 county centroids. EIA content is in the public domain (EIA copyright and reuse statement); the EIA logo is not used. Corrections: [email protected].