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Jersey Central Power & Lt Co rate plans
5 residential plans are currently open to new customers. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.
Looking for when the expensive hours are? Jersey Central Power & Lt’s peak hours, plan by plan →
What does Jersey Central Power & Lt cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $2,216 a year on the cheapest of the 5 plans we can price here — Residential Service for Off-Peak Water Heating — and $2,497 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $1,147 | Residential Service for Off-Peak Water Heating | $1,297 |
| 1,000 kWh | $2,216 | Residential Service for Off-Peak Water Heating | $2,497 |
| 2,000 kWh | $4,355 | Residential Service for Off-Peak Water Heating | $5,097 |
The same plan is cheapest at every level of use here, so the answer does not turn on how much you use. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.
How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan Jersey Central Power & Lt Co files, and the bill lands anywhere between $1,762 and $1,987 a year. That $225 spread is not a difference in electricity — it is the same kilowatt-hours, from the same wires, priced under different rules. Nobody sends you a letter when you are on the wrong side of it.
The plan most households land on by default, Residential Service, comes to about $1,938. The cheapest option here, Residential Service for Off-Peak Water Heating, comes to $1,762 — a gap of about $176 a year for a household that never changed a single habit. Whether you can actually capture that depends on when you use power, which is what the calculator below is for.
2 of these 5 plans price by the hour. Those are the ones where moving laundry, dishes, or car charging into the cheap window changes the bill; on the rest, the clock is irrelevant and only the total matters. Which camp you belong in is the first question worth settling, because it decides whether shifting your day is worth anything at all.
Watch the fixed charges too. Across these plans they run from $51 to $97 a year before a single kilowatt-hour is counted. For a small household that difference alone can outweigh the per-kWh price, which is why comparing cents per kilowatt-hour on its own quietly misleads.
How Jersey Central Power & Lt compares across New Jersey
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 3 New Jersey utilities we cover, and Jersey Central Power & Lt is the cheapest of the lot at about $1,938 a year; the state median is $2,669. The dearest, Atlantic City Electric, charges $2,794 for identical use — a gap set by the address, not by anything either household did.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $975 here against a state median of $1,383, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $2,715 against $3,668. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 20.5¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Inside Jersey Central Power & Lt itself, the gap between its cheapest and dearest plan for that house is $225 a year — less than the $856 between New Jersey's cheapest and dearest utilities. Here the address decides most of the bill; the plan decides the rest.
Every New Jersey utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
Which plan would cost you least?
No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.
That adds up to 8,462 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$183a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Residential Service for Off-Peak Water Heating — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| Residential Service for Off-Peak Water HeatingThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September. | $1,584 | — |
| Residential Service for Controlled Water HeatingThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September. | $1,643 | +$59 |
| Residential ServiceThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak October–May. | $1,686 | +$103 |
| Residential TOD ServicePeak hits 8am–8pm every day, all year. | $1,742 | +$159 |
| Residential Geothermal and Heat Pump ServicePeak hits 8am–8pm every day, all year. | $1,766 | +$183 |
An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.
Before you switch anything
- What is a time-of-use electricity rate?
The same kilowatt-hour, priced differently depending on when you use it.
- Should you switch to a time-of-use electricity plan?
A wide peak-to-off-peak gap is a lever, not a saving. Levers need something to move.
- How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong
Six things that break a comparison, and the order to check them in.
Every plan, in detail
Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.
- Residential Geothermal and Heat Pump Servicetime-of-use
Peak hits 8am–8pm every day, all year.
14.8–26.5¢ - Residential Serviceflat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak October–May.
17.4–24.3¢ - Residential Service for Controlled Water Heatingflat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
18.5–18.5¢ - Residential Service for Off-Peak Water Heatingflat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
17.8–17.8¢ - Residential TOD Servicetime-of-use
Peak hits 8am–8pm every day, all year.
14.8–26.5¢