Atlantic City Electric Rates in 2026: What You Pay and How to Pay Less

As of June 2026, the default electricity supply rate for Atlantic City Electric customers in southern New Jersey runs about 18.2¢ per kilowatt-hour.

That number is the part of your bill you can actually shop. The rest of the bill, the delivery charge, stays fixed no matter what you do. Atlantic City Electric always handles delivery, and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities sets those delivery rates.

The supply side is different. You can leave it on the default rate, or you can switch it to a third-party supplier and pay less. Right now the lowest competitive supply rate for Atlantic City Electric customers sits near 16.7¢/kWh. That gap, roughly 1.5¢ on every kilowatt-hour, is the whole story of this page.

Every Atlantic City Electric bill splits into two pieces.

Delivery covers the poles, wires, and the work of getting power to your meter. Atlantic City Electric does this job for everyone in its territory. You cannot shop it, and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (nj.gov/bpu) approves what the utility charges.

Supply covers the actual electricity. This is the part you can shop. If you do nothing, you stay on Basic Generation Service, the default supply the state arranges for you. If you switch, a competitive supplier sells you the same electrons over the same wires at a different price.

Nothing about your service changes when you switch supply. Same wires, same meter, same Atlantic City Electric handling outages and repairs. Only the supply line on the bill moves.

The default supply rate is called Basic Generation Service, or BGS. New Jersey buys this power through a statewide auction once a year, and the result resets every February 1.

So the 18.2¢/kWh figure you see in June 2026 is locked in from the most recent auction. It will not drift day to day. It holds until the next reset.

That predictability cuts both ways. The default rate is steady, but it is not the cheapest supply on the market. It reflects a wholesale auction price plus the utility’s cost to serve everyone who never bothered to shop. Customers who do shop the supply line can usually beat it.

Here is the supply cost only, default versus competitive, at three common usage levels. Delivery is unchanged in every row, so it is not shown here.

At 500 kWh:
• Default supply (18.2¢): $91.00
• Competitive supply (16.7¢): $83.50
• You save: $7.50

At 1,000 kWh:
• Default supply (18.2¢): $182.00
• Competitive supply (16.7¢): $167.00
• You save: $15.00

At 1,500 kWh:
• Default supply (18.2¢): $273.00
• Competitive supply (16.7¢): $250.50
• You save: $22.50

The more power you use, the bigger the gap. But even at modest usage the math is real money.

Take a typical home using 1,000 kWh a month.

The supply line drops from $182.00 to $167.00. That is $15 a month off the supply portion.

Over twelve months, $15 becomes $180 a year. Same house, same usage, same wires. The only thing that changed was which company sells the supply.

That is about an 8% cut on the supply side of the bill. It will not transform your finances. But it is found money for a one-time switch, and the savings keep coming as long as the competitive rate holds.

Switching supply in New Jersey is straightforward and your service never goes dark during the process.

You pick a competitive supplier and a rate. Atlantic City Electric keeps delivering the power and still sends your bill. The supply line just shows the new supplier and the new price.

A few things worth checking before you commit:

• Read the term length. Some competitive rates are fixed for a set number of months, then roll to a variable rate.
• Watch for early termination fees.
• Confirm there is no monthly service charge eating into the savings.

You can see current Atlantic City Electric supply rates and compare them against the default on the Atlantic City Electric rates page.

The default BGS rate resets every February 1 through the statewide auction. Competitive supplier rates move more often, since suppliers price against wholesale energy markets that shift week to week.

That means the 1.5¢ gap between default and competitive is a June 2026 snapshot, not a permanent fixture. In some months the gap widens. In others it narrows.

The practical move is to recheck the supply rate a couple of times a year, especially right after the February reset. If your competitive rate is on a fixed term, note when it ends so you are not surprised by a variable rate later.

For live numbers rather than this snapshot, the Atlantic City Electric rates page on ElectricRates.org shows what suppliers are offering today.