Penelec Electricity Rates - Price to Compare & Supplier Rates

Penelec is the electric utility company for central and western Pennsylvania serving more than 600,000 customers They are owned by FirstEnergy Corporation, which also operates 3 other utilities in Pennsylvania: Met-Ed, Penn Power and West Penn Power.

If Penelec is your electricity company, you can purchase power from them or use your electric choice and select an electricity supplier. Learn more about rates, ways to save and Penelec’s history.

Areas Served by Penelec

Penelec is the electric utility company for Erie, Altoona, Johnstown, Shippenburg and many more towns.

They are your utility company if you live in the following counties:

Armstrong	Bedford	Blair	Bradford
Cambria	Centre	Clarion	Clearfield
Crawford	Cumberland	Erie	Forest
Franklin	Huntingdon	Indiana	Jefferson
Juniata	Lycoming	McKean	Mifflin
Perry	Potter	Somerset	Sullivan
Susquehanna	Tioga	Venango	Warren
Wayne	Westmoreland	Wyoming

Shop for Electricity Rates in Penelec

Penelec is part of Pennsylvania’s customer choice program.That’s the common name for electricity deregulation in PA.

You can get your electricity supply from your utility. Or you can shop for a PA electricity supplier licensed by the PA Public Utility Commission.

No matter who who you buy power from, Penelec continues to deliver the electricity to your home, respond in an emergency and send your bill.

If you choose the Penelec to supply your electricity, you’ll pay their Price to Compare. And your price will change quarterly.

Or you can shop for a competitive supplier with offers like the rates you see here. You can lock in a fixed rate and have price certainty for the term of your contract.

Electric Generation Suppliers can often give you a rate that’s lower than the current price to compare. And you can lock in that rate for a contract length term that you select. That’s why it pays to shop and save on your electricity bill.

Penelec Price to Compare – Current and Historical Rates

Penelec Price to Compare updates quarterly with market prices in March, June, September, and December.

The current rate in the table below is what you would pay for electricity if you stay with this utility as your default electricity supplier (Rate RS – Regular Residential Service). You can also view historical Price to Compare to see how rates have changes.

Effective Date	Price to Compare
December 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025	10.474¢
September 1, 2024 - November 30, 2024	9.751¢
June 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024	9.74¢
December 1, 2023 - May 31, 2024	10.609¢
September 1, 2023 - November 30, 2023	9.703¢
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023	9.703¢
March 1, 2023 - May 31, 2023	9.561¢
December 1, 2022 - February 28, 2023	9.889¢
September 1, 2022 - November 30, 2022	10.021¢
June 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022	8.443¢
March 1, 2022 - May 31, 2022	6.232¢
December 1, 2021 - February 28, 2022	6.507¢
September 1, 2021 - November 30, 2021	6.761¢
June 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021	6.462¢
March 1, 2021 - May 31, 2021	4.981¢
December 1, 2020 - February 28, 2021	5.667¢
September 1, 2020 - November 30, 2020	5.598¢

Power Outage – Who to Call

If you have a power outage, you’ll contact your utility company for assistance. Report your Penelec power outage online, which is the preferred method. You may also call them at 888-544-4877.

About Penelec

Penelec delivers power to about 588,000 customers in parts of northern and central Pennsylvania, covering a 17,600-square-mile area.

Penelec began in Philipsburg, Pa., providing power to 16 customers within a two-mile radius. By 1919, multiple local electric companies across Erie, Warren, Huntingdon, Lewistown, Bedford, Punxsutawney, Towanda and Oil City decided to consolidate into the Penn Public Service Corporation, which moved its headquarters to Johnstown, PA.

The company continued to grow, acquiring 20 more local electric providers within the next 10 years. During this period, it also built a longer power line that connected its station on the Clarion River to the West Penn Power Company’s facilities and joined a transmission network extending from Boston to Chicago.

By 1927, the company changed its name to the Pennsylvania Electric Company, shortened to Penelec, and became part of General Public Utilities following World War II. General Public Utilities merged with FirstEnergy Corp. at the start of the 21^st century.

FirstEnergy’s Pennsylvania Consolidation

Serving about six million customers across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, FirstEnergy oversees about 24,000 miles of transmission lines and 269,000 miles of distribution lines. In 2023, the company proposed consolidating its four Pennsylvania subsidiaries, including Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power and West Penn Power, and received approval from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission that year.

The subsidiaries now operate as the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Company (FE PA) but retain their more familiar names and rate structures. FirstEnergy, meanwhile, plans to shift grid and asset management to the Keystone Appalachian Transmission Company to devote its resources and funds to power delivery.

This consolidation won’t immediately affect customers but, in the long term, could:

• Gradually lower rates.
• Improve Penelec’s customer service.
• Result in more regular grid upgrades.
• Increase the amount of bill assistance available.