PJM Interconnection5 markets
Most acute
Capacity prices up more than 11-fold in four years, driven almost entirely by data-center demand forecasts. This is the epicentre — and it covers five of the seven markets we serve.
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Fixed supply rates · 7 markets · 12-month terms
Compare FixedElectricity Supply Options
Same utility. Same wires. Nothing installed.
The supply rate on your electric bill is something you're allowed to shop. Call and a licensed agent checks the fixed-rate options currently available for your utility — and explains the rate and terms before you decide anything.
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About 2 minutes • No obligation to switch
Have a recent electric bill nearby if possible.
- No obligation to switch
- Same utility
- Same poles and wires
- Nothing installed
- Rate and terms explained before you decide
MD21.77¢▲14.6%PA21.55¢▲11.7%DC24.39¢▲4.8%MA28.82¢▼3.6%NJ23.27¢▲13.6%OH19.52¢▲14.2%NY29.93¢▲12.1%US AVG18.44¢▲6.2%
No obligation
What happens when you call?
1
Call us
Speak with an agent.
2
Tell us your utility
Have a recent electric bill nearby if possible.
3
Hear current options
The agent checks available fixed-rate supply options for your utility and service area.
4
You decide
The rate and terms are explained before you agree to anything.
Staffed call center — call to check current availability
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YOU SHOP EVERYTHING ELSE
You shop your insurance. Your internet. Your phone plan.
So why have you never shopped the biggest bill of the three?
Most households in this state have no idea the electricity rate is something they are allowed to choose. That is not a failure of attention. Nobody sends you a letter about it.
- Car insuranceYou compared quotes
- Home or renters insuranceYou compared quotes
- InternetYou shopped the plan
- PhoneYou switched to save twenty dollars
- StreamingYou cancelled the one you don’t watch
- ElectricityYou have never looked once
That last line is the biggest number on the list.
For most households the electric bill is larger than the phone bill and the streaming bills put together, and it arrives every single month for as long as you live there. It is the one recurring cost in the house that has never been questioned.
There is a reason nobody told you. Your utility earns the same on delivery whether you shop or not, so it has no reason to advertise that you can leave its default rate. Your state does run a comparison website, but states do not buy television ads. So the market sits there, open and legal, and most households walk past it for years.
Every other bill in your house you have shopped at least once. This is the one you have not.
The rate is quoted on the call. There is no other way to see it.
Nothing on this page is an offer. A licensed agent pulls the current fixed offers for your utility while you are on the phone, reads them to you, and you decide right then.
About 2 minutes • No obligation to switch
11.2×Increase in PJM's capacity price since the 2024–25 delivery year.
94%Share of PJM's projected 2024–2030 demand growth from data centers.
+$70NRDC's estimate of the average family's monthly bill increase by 2028.
7Markets where you can lock a fixed 12-month supply rate today.
Sources: PJM capacity auction results (Jul 2026) · PJM load forecast · NRDC analysis
The reset calendar
Your default rate has an expiry date.
Six of the seven markets we serve reset their default supply rate on a published schedule — and you find out the new number when the bill arrives. A fixed 12-month rate is set before the reset, not after.
Pennsylvania53 days
Price to Compare resets December 1.
2026-12-01 · last verified 2026-09-03
Washington, D.C.53 days
Pepco's Standard Offer Service resets December 1.
2026-12-01 · last verified 2026-09-03
Massachusetts115 days
Basic service resets February 1.
2027-02-01 · last verified 2026-09-03
Maryland235 days
Standard Offer Service resets June 1.
2027-06-01 · last verified 2026-10-02
New Jersey235 days
Basic Generation Service resets June 1.
2027-06-01 · last verified 2026-09-03
Ohio235 days
Default generation rate resets June 1.
2027-06-01 · last verified 2026-09-03
New YorkVariable
Moves with the market / anytime — there's no fixed default number to wait for.
No reset date · last verified 2026-09-03
Reset timing re-verified 2026-09-03. Utility cadences vary within a state — your utility's own notice governs. A reset can move the default rate up, down, or leave it similar.
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Your utility's default rate resets on a schedule. Yours does not have to move with it.
A twelve-month fixed supply rate holds through the next reset. The default rate does not. It might go up. It might go down. You don't get a vote either way.
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What actually changed
Nobody raised your rate on purpose.
They ran out of headroom.
Every year, grid operators hold an auction to pay generators for being available — not for the power you use, but for the promise it'll be there on the worst day of the year. It's called capacity, and it's normally a quiet line item.
Then demand forecasts exploded. PJM — the operator covering 65 million people from the Midwest to the Atlantic — now projects peak demand rising 32 gigawatts by 2030, with data centers accounting for all but two of them. Supply didn't keep pace. The auction price did what auctions do when demand outruns supply.
The 2028–29 auction only stopped at $325 because Pennsylvania's governor negotiated a cap. Without it, the number would have been higher.
PJM capacity price
$ / megawatt-day$28.92
2024–25
$269.92
2025–26
$329.17
2026–27
$333.44
2027–28
$325.00
2028–29
The bone rule on the final bar marks the negotiated price cap. Capacity costs flow into the supply half of residential bills across the five PJM markets we serve — Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio and D.C.
Where it bites hardest
This isn't happening evenly.
Three operators run the grid across the seven markets we serve, and the data-center squeeze is far sharper in some than others. We'd rather tell you that than pretend one number covers everyone.
ISO New EnglandNew England
Expensive already
Massachusetts pays some of the highest residential rates in the country for reasons that predate AI — constrained pipelines and winter fuel. It's the one market we serve where rates actually fell slightly this year — and they're still among the highest in the country.
MA
NYISONew York
High and rising
The highest average residential rate of any market we serve, up 12% in a year — and with no fixed default number at all, the supply price moves every single month.
NY
The one lever
You can't vote on a data center.
You can change your supply rate.
Your bill has two halves. Delivery pays for the poles, wires, meters and crews — that's your utility, it's regulated, and nobody can change it. Supply pays for the electricity itself, and in the seven markets we serve that half was deregulated years ago so you could shop it.
Most households have never shopped it. They're on whatever default rate their utility assigns, which moves with exactly the wholesale pressure described above.
Nothing about your service changes. Same utility, same wires, same outage crew, same bill. Only the supply line reads differently.
The split varies by utility and season. No supplier can reduce the delivery half — anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you, and that's a useful test.
The seven markets
What a fixed rate is worth where you live.
Modelled on each market's average household usage and average residential rate. Pick a state to load the estimator, or open its page for the reset date and offer.
Rate fell this yearRate roseRate rose sharplyBar length = modelled annual
All seven markets are in the list — nothing is missing. Figures are modelled estimates, not quotes: they assume a 30% reduction on the supply portion of an average household bill. Rates and usage are state averages for May 2026 — your own bill will differ.
Selecting a market loads it into the estimator below; "PAGE" opens its state page — reset date, offer and three-question qualifier.
Where it shows up at home
The bigger your load, the more the rate matters.
A rate change applies to every kilowatt-hour you buy. So the households with the most to gain are the ones drawing the most — and one of these has grown very fast.
01 · Baseline
+863
KWH / MONTH
The average U.S. home
Lights, fridge, laundry, screens. Everything before you add anything unusual.
02 · Electric vehicle
+303
KWH / MONTH
Charging at home
A 1,000-mile month at 3.3 mi/kWh. That's like adding a third of a second household to your meter — priced at the same rate as everything else.
03 · Heat pump
+400
KWH / MONTH, WINTER
Electrified heating
Efficient per unit of heat, but it moves your heating bill onto the electric meter — and into the rate you’re about to shop.
04 · Central air
+500
KWH / MONTH, SUMMER
Cooling in July
The reason capacity auctions exist at all. Peak demand is a hot afternoon — and now a hot afternoon plus a data centre.
Baseline is the U.S. average residential figure. Heat-pump and air-conditioning figures are typical seasonal ranges for a mid-size home and vary widely with climate, insulation and equipment age; treat them as illustrative rather than a forecast for your house.
Build your load
Toggle what applies to your home to see your illustrative monthly load, then push it into the estimator.
Illustrative monthly load
863 kWh
Your estimate
What's your supply rate costing you?
Two inputs. The math updates as you move.
Check any recent bill817 kWh
3002,500
Pennsylvania average rate
21.55¢▲11.7% yr
All-in residential average, May 2026. Grid operator: PJM. Roughly 55% of that rate is supply — the part you can change.
Your estimated monthly bill$176/mo
Of that, the supply half$97/mo
Bill on an improved supply rate$147/mo
Now
Improved
Estimated annual saving
$349across your whole household load — not just one appliance
Want the actual current rate for your utility? Call (833) 840-5043 — an agent can check current options in about two minutes.
Estimate only. Uses your state's average residential rate for May 2026, assumes supply is about 55% of your all-in rate, and applies a 30% reduction to the supply portion alone. Delivery charges don't change. Your actual rate depends on your utility, your usage pattern and the plans available where you live.
How we operate
Six checks between you and a bad deal.
This industry has a reputation, and it earned it. Here's exactly what happens before we hand you to anyone.
Your state actually has choice.
If it doesn't, we tell you and stop. We don't route calls we can't serve.
You're the account holder.
Switching an account you don't hold is illegal. We check before we connect you.
Every enrollment is voice-verified.
A recorded third-party verification confirms your identity, the rate, the term and the terms — in your own words.
Rate and term are read to you.
Out loud, on the recording, before anything is authorized. No fine print doing the talking.
You get a cancellation window.
Every choice market provides one after enrollment begins. We'll explain yours on the call.
Your utility is untouched.
Same delivery, same outage response, same bill. We say it because it's the question everyone asks.
DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR ANY OF THIS
You're not being asked to trust us. You're being asked to look at what your own state publishes.
This is the part that separates a real market from a scam: the government built it, the government documents it, and the government runs a comparison site so you can check us.
Your state runs the comparison site
The market exists because a state created it.
Ohio publishes Energy Choice Ohio. Pennsylvania runs PAPowerSwitch. Massachusetts has Energy Switch Massachusetts. New Jersey, Maryland, D.C. and New York each run their own through their utility commissions. Those sites exist for exactly one reason: so households can shop this.
The number you are beating is public
Pennsylvania even gives it a name.
It is called the Price to Compare, and it is printed on your own bill. It is the utility's default supply rate, and it is the number a fixed offer has to beat to be worth signing. You do not have to take our word for what it is. It is on the bill sitting in your kitchen.
Nobody can switch you quietly
The verification is the law, not a courtesy.
Every enrollment is confirmed through a recorded third-party verification, handled by a company that is not the agent who took your call. Your identity, the rate and the term are read back to you in your own words. If you do not say yes, nothing happens to your account.
This is not a fringe thing
In New York, roughly 15% of households already use a supplier.
The other 85% sit on default service — not because they compared and decided against it, but because nobody told them there was anything to compare. New York went further than most and now requires household supply offers to be fixed and to beat the utility's default rate in the contract itself.
One phone call. Twelve months of a rate that cannot move.
Same utility, same wires, same crew on an outage, same bill. Only the supply line on it changes.
About 2 minutes • No obligation to switch
Before you call
The biggest concerns, answered plainly.
- Will my power change?
- No. Your utility still delivers your electricity.
- Does someone come to my house?
- No installation is required.
- Do I change utilities?
- No. Your existing utility still handles delivery, outages, poles, wires and the meter.
- Do I have to switch if I call?
- No. Calling lets you hear available options. You decide after hearing the rate and terms.
- How long does the call take?
- Typically only a few minutes.
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Questions
The things you're actually wondering.
You are not changing utilities. You call the same company you call today, at the same number printed on your bill. Your utility still owns the poles, the wires and the meter, and still sends the crew. A supplier never touches any of that.
No. Nothing is disconnected and nothing is installed. Your utility keeps delivering the electricity over the same wires it always has. The switch happens on paper between your utility and the supplier, and it takes effect on your next meter read.
None of those. There is no equipment, no technician visit, and nothing added to your home. This is a supply rate change on your existing account.
No. Calling lets you hear the fixed-rate options currently available for your utility, with the rate and the term read to you before anything happens. If the numbers do not make sense for you, you say no — and nothing changes on your account.
Typically only a few minutes. The agent checks the current fixed-rate offers for your utility, reads you the rate and the term, and answers your questions. Having a recent electric bill nearby makes it faster, but it is not required.
One line. Your bill has a delivery portion and a supply portion. Delivery stays with your utility and does not change. The supply rate is the part you are allowed to shop, and that is the part a fixed twelve-month rate locks.
Because supply offers move, and they differ by utility and by service address. Publishing a number here would mean showing you a rate that may not exist by the time you read it. A licensed agent pulls the current fixed offers for your specific utility while you are on the phone and reads them to you before you agree to anything.
In most cases, no. Your utility keeps billing you and the supply charge appears as a line on the same bill you already receive. Some suppliers in some markets bill separately, and the agent tells you which arrangement applies before you agree to anything.
Then you keep paying your fixed rate and you do not get the benefit of that drop. That is the honest trade. A fixed rate is not a bet on which direction the default rate moves — it is a number that cannot move for twelve months regardless of which way it goes. What you are buying is certainty.
The contract states what the rate rolls into when the term ends, and the agent states it on the call before you agree. At the end of the term you are free to shop again, sign another fixed term, or return to your utility's default rate.
No. Every enrollment has to be confirmed by you through a recorded third-party verification, handled by an independent company and not by the agent who took your call. If you do not confirm, nothing happens.
Your utility does not charge you to change suppliers. Fixed-rate contracts can carry an early cancellation fee if you leave before the term ends. The agent states that fee on the call before you agree, and it appears in the contract you receive.
Tell the supplier. A move is a standard reason to end a term, and how it is handled is written into the contract you receive. Ask the agent on the call if you expect to move inside the next year.
Ready when you are
Ready to Check Your Rate?
It takes about two minutes to find out what fixed electricity supply options may currently be available for your utility.
Staffed call center — call to check current availability
- No obligation to switch
- Same utility
- Same poles and wires
- Nothing installed
- Rate and terms explained before you decide
