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Electric utilities serving Bergen County, New Jersey

Utilities that list the county in their Form EIA-861 service territory for 2024, with each one's average price, bill and outage minutes.

Bergen County, New Jersey, appears in the Form EIA-861 service territory of 3 utilities for 2024; Public Service Elec & Gas Co, Rockland Electric Co and Borough of Park Ridge are the largest by residential customers statewide.

Their average residential prices ran from 20.42¢ to 21.04¢ per kilowatthour, with a median of 20.73¢, against a New Jersey average of 19.34¢ and a US average of 16.48¢. Each price is the utility's figure for all of its New Jersey customers, not for this county alone.

The median SAIDI they reported was 135.3 minutes per customer including major event days; the median among all New Jersey utilities reporting was 174.1.

The Census Bureau estimates the county's population at 977,026. EIA does not publish customers by county, so which utility serves a given address has to be confirmed with the utility or the state utility commission.

3utilities list the county1 on EIA's short form
20.73¢median of their residential pricesNew Jersey 19.34¢ · US 16.48¢
$155.33median of their monthly billsNew Jersey $128.13
135.3median SAIDI minutes, all eventsNew Jersey median 174.1

Average price is revenue divided by sales for the sector and year; it is not a tariff rate. Reliability figures are as reported by utilities to EIA on Form 861 and may use different calculation methods. Figures are for each utility's whole New Jersey operation; EIA publishes nothing at county level.

Utilities and their 2024 figures

UtilityOwnershipResidential customers¢ per kWhMonthly billSAIDI, all eventsSAIDI, no major events
Public Service Elec & Gas CoInvestor-owned2,056,23120.42¢$115.4745.339.3
Rockland Electric CoInvestor-owned66,36021.04¢$195.20225.2148.6
Borough of Park Ridge short formMunicipal3,841————

Ordered by residential customers in New Jersey. Short-form filers are small utilities that report only totals to EIA, so no residential price is available; their all-sector revenue per kWh was Borough of Park Ridge 16.30¢. A utility with no customers shown reported its retail sales elsewhere or delivers power that other companies bill for.

Against the state and the country

Measure, 2024Utilities listing Bergen CountyNew JerseyUnited States
Average residential price per kWh20.73¢ median19.34¢16.48¢
Average monthly residential bill$155.33 median$128.13$142.26
SAIDI, all events (minutes)135.3 median174.1 median184.5 median
SAIDI, without major event days93.9 median99.3 median99.8 median
Utilities counted3671,413

Outage minutes reported

Public Service Elec & Gas Co45.3 min
Rockland Electric Co225.2 min

SAIDI for 2024 across each utility's whole system, including major event days (paler bars: only the figure without major event days was reported). Not a measure of outages in Bergen County itself.

Population: 977,026 (U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 estimate). Statewide, residential sales came to 3,110 kWh per resident in 2024.

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Questions and answers

Who provides electricity in Bergen County?

Public Service Elec & Gas Co, Rockland Electric Co and Borough of Park Ridge list the county in their Form EIA-861 service territory for 2024. Territories overlap, and a utility may cover only a corner of the county.

What is the electricity price in Bergen County?

EIA has no county-level prices. The utilities serving the county reported average residential prices of 20.42¢ to 21.04¢ per kilowatthour across their New Jersey customers in 2024; the state average was 19.34¢.

How reliable is power in Bergen County?

Reliability is reported per utility, not per county. The utilities listed reported a median of 135.3 minutes of interruption per customer in 2024 including major event days and 93.9 minutes excluding them.

Provenance

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 for 2024, final release: service territory file (counties by utility), sales to ultimate customers, reliability and short form files. State and US averages: Form EIA-861M workbook. Population: U.S. Census Bureau. Public domain. To confirm the utility at an address, ask the utility or the state utility commission.