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Penelec (Pennsylvania Electric Company) electricity rate history
Every approved residential rate revision for Penelec (Pennsylvania Electric Company), drawn from the NREL Utility Rate Database. Use this page to read where today's rate sits in the historical picture — and to time a supplier switch with that context.
Quick answer
How much has Penelec’s rate changed since I last shopped? The chart below shows every approved residential rate revision for Penelec (Pennsylvania Electric Company) on file with the URDB. Scroll to compare today’s rate against the same month in any prior year — the gap is what a non-shopping customer has absorbed.
How much has Penelec’s rate gone up since I last shopped?
Penelec (Pennsylvania Electric Company), a FirstEnergy operating company, sets its residential Price to Compare through PA PUC-approved supply auctions. The revisions below trace each approved change to the default rate.
Rate increases compound. A 10% step-up isn’t paid once — it’s the floor under every kWh you’ll buy until the next reset. Three of those in a decade is the difference between a household that pays attention at contract renewal and one that doesn’t. That’s the case for keeping a per-utility historical view honest and in one place.
Tap or hover any point to see the exact effective date, revision name, and rate. Toggle to table view for the full chronological list with fixed monthly charges.
How to read this history if you're shopping for a better rate
Erie and Altoona customers on 1,000 kWh/month who stayed on Penelec's default rate paid the chart values one after another. The historical comparison makes it easy to see whether today's posted PTC is high or low by Penelec standards — which is the right context for deciding whether to shop a fixed-rate offer right now.
Three useful comparisons
- Today vs. five years ago. Look at the most recent revision in the chart against the one effective ~5 years before. That's the compounded shift — the lift a non-shopping customer absorbed.
- Today vs. recent low. The lowest rate in the past three years is the rough floor a competitive supplier could have offered at the time. If today's rate is well above that floor, a fixed-rate offer locked in at the low would still be saving its customer money right now.
- Step size of changes. Are revisions small and frequent, or large and rare? Large step-ups are the moments where switching ahead of the change pays the most — and they show up clearly in the chart as steep stair-treads.
Methodology & sources
Revisions on this page come from the U.S. Utility Rate Database (URDB) , maintained by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). URDB aggregates approved residential, commercial, and industrial tariff filings — the same documents utilities file with their state public utility commissions.
We filter to Penelec's residential default service (the rate non-shopping customers pay), sorted by effective date, and show every approved revision back to the earliest URDB record for the utility. The "source" link on each revision in the table points to the original tariff filing PDF on the utility or commission website.
Refresh cadence: URDB updates daily as new tariff filings are approved. We re-sync monthly and update this page on the next deploy. The "last updated" date at the top of the page reflects the most recent sync.
Service territory: Northwestern Pennsylvania including Erie, Altoona, and Johnstown.
URDB is public-domain federal data (NREL / U.S. Department of Energy). Attribution is courtesy, not required — we cite it because the source matters.
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Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) — U.S. Utility Rate Database (openei.org/wiki/Utility_Rate_Database). Public-domain federal data. Each revision row links to the original tariff filing on the utility or commission website. Last synced from URDB: 2026-06-06.