Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc (PA) Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc (PA) is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 40293. In 2024 it served 18,190 bundled residential customers in Pennsylvania, and its average realised residential price was 15.58 cents per kWh: $30 million of residential revenue divided by 194,697 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc (PA)'s 2024 average prices were 14.52 cents for commercial customers (1,428 accounts) and 10.21 cents for industrial customers (3 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.37 cents less per kWh than households, a 34% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Pennsylvania, Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc (PA) ranked number 10 of 19 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (18,190) and accounted for 0.36% 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 17.77 cents per kWh, so Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc (PA)'s customers paid 2.19 cents below the Pennsylvania average (-12.3%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Pennsylvania is 21.73 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 Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc (PA) in 5 Pennsylvania counties: Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Venango, and Warren. On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 16.08 cents per kWh for Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc (PA) in Pennsylvania across 18,200 residential customers, 0.50 cents higher 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 Pennsylvania by service-territory centroid are Central Electric Coop, Inc (PA) (41.3 miles away, 17.03 cents), Duquesne Light Co (81.5 miles away, 21.74 cents), REA Energy Coop Inc (83.6 miles away, 14.53 cents), Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc (118.3 miles away, 13.96 cents), and Tri-County Rural Elec Coop Inc (PA) (119.8 miles away, 20.08 cents).