Delmarva Power Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)
Investor Owned|EIA utility 5027|Delaware + 1 more|Bundled + Delivery
In 2024, Delmarva Power's residential customers paid an average of 17.23 cents per kWh: $502 million of revenue over 2.92 million MWh of sales across 275,018 bundled residential customers, plus 26,932 delivery-only residential accounts that buy their energy elsewhere, as reported to EIA on Form 861.
How the 17.23c figure is calculated
17.23c/kWh = $502,490k revenue / 2,916,139 MWh x 100. This is EIA's average realised price for 2024: everything Delmarva Power 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 $172 before taxes.
About Delmarva Power's 2024 electricity prices
Delmarva Power is an investor-owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 5027. In 2024 it served 275,018 bundled residential customers in Delaware (its largest state of 2) (plus 26,932 delivery-only residential accounts that buy their energy from a competitive supplier), and its average realised residential price was 17.23 cents per kWh: $502 million of residential revenue divided by 2.92 million MWh of residential sales.
Across the other sectors, Delmarva Power's 2024 average prices were 16.54 cents for commercial customers (26,154 accounts) and 8.85 cents for industrial customers (38 accounts). Industrial customers paid 8.38 cents less per kWh than households, a 49% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service. Delaware allows retail choice, so the customer base splits two ways: 275,018 residential customers took bundled service (energy plus delivery) at 17.23 cents per kWh, while 26,932 bought their energy from a competitive supplier and paid Delmarva Power only for delivery, which averaged 7.17 cents per kWh for the wires portion.
Within Delaware, Delmarva Power ranked number 1 of 6 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (301,950, bundled plus delivery-only) and accounted for 61.63% 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 Delmarva Power's customers paid 0.66 cents above the Delaware average (+4.0%). 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 Delmarva Power in 3 Delaware counties: Kent, New Castle, and Sussex. It also reports 2024 retail sales in Maryland (186,368 residential customers at 20.22 cents). On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported transmission, buying transmission, distribution, and wholesale marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.
Delmarva Power is not among the utilities included in EIA's preliminary 2025 early release, so the 2024 final data is the most recent figure available for it.
The nearest other utilities in Delaware by service-territory centroid are Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc (10.9 miles away, 16.46 cents), Easton Utilities Comm (20.9 miles away, 13.06 cents), Delaware Electric Cooperative (22 miles away, 14.22 cents), City of Milford (DE) (22 miles away, 15.17 cents), and City of Dover (DE) (23.1 miles away, 15.52 cents).
| Sector | Customers | Sales (MWh) | Revenue ($k) | Avg c/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 275,018 | 2,916,139 | 502,490 | 17.23 |
| Commercial | 26,154 | 869,426 | 143,773 | 16.54 |
| Industrial | 38 | 16,425 | 1,454 | 8.85 |
Bundled service vs delivery-only customers
Counties served in Delaware (3)
From the EIA-861 Service Territory file; a listed county can be served in part only.
| Maryland Bundled + Delivery | 186,368 res. accounts | 20.22c | #4 of 9 |
Nearby and comparable utilities in Delaware
- EIA utility number
- 5027
- Ownership type
- Investor Owned
- Data year
- 2024 final (EIA-861)
- Primary state
- Delaware
- States with retail sales
- DE, MD
- Service type
- Bundled + Delivery (Part A, C)
- Bundled residential customers (DE, price basis)
- 275,018
- Residential accounts served (DE), bundled + delivery-only
- 301,950
- All accounts, all sectors (DE)
- 339,588
- Residential price, 2024
- 17.23 c/kWh
- Commercial price, 2024
- 16.54 c/kWh
- Industrial price, 2024
- 8.85 c/kWh
- Residential sales
- 2.92 million MWh
- Residential revenue
- $502 million
- Delivery-only residential customers
- 26,932
- Delivery-only residential charge
- 7.17 c/kWh
- Rank in Delaware by residential accounts served
- 1 of 6
- Share of Delaware residential sales (MWh, not customers)
- 61.63%
- Delaware average, 2024
- 16.57 c/kWh
- Counties served (DE)
- 3
- NERC region
- RFC
- RTO / ISO
- PJM Interconnection
- Balancing authority
- PJM
- Reported activities
- Transmission, Buying Transmission, Distribution, Wholesale Marketing
- 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].