Price to Compare

The price to compare is the portion of your bill associated with electricity generation and transmission. This is the amount you will be charged if you continue to receive generation and transmission service from PECO.

How Can I Use Price To Compare Information?
What is the Gross Receipts Tax and how is it factored into Price-To-Compare?
What is Energy Delivery?
What Are My Metering Choices?
What Are My Billing Choices?

How Can I Use Price To Compare Information?
You can use the price to compare to estimate your potential savings among the various suppliers.

The table below provides residential customers with their average price to compare and a detailed price to compare.

• If you want to estimate your potential savings and obtain a "ball park" figure, you can use the average price to compare.
• If you want a closer estimate of your potential savings you can use the detailed price to compare, which accounts for usage and season.

Note: CAP Rate customers will continue to receive their CAP discount, as well as have the opportunity to shop for another electric supplier. CAP Rate customers can call 1-800-494-4000 to obtain the price to compare for their rate class.

For additional information:
Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) or PA Power Switch

Effective January 2010

Residential Rate Classes	Average Price to Compare (cents/kWh)	Detailed Price to Compare* (cents/kWh)
Residential (R)	6.79	up to 500kWh 6.65 over 500 kWh summer 7.45 over 500 kWh winter 6.65
Residential Heating (RH)	5.53	up to 500 kWh summer 6.92 over 500 kWh summer 7.75 up to 600 kWh winter 6.92 over 600 kWh winter 3.92
Off-Peak (OP) See note 1 below	2.10	all kWh’s 2.10
CAP Rates	See note 2 below	See note 2 below

*Summer months are from June - September.
*Winter months are from October - May.

Note 1: Shopping customers with off-peak service must receive generation service from their supplier for their Off-Peak account along with the energy for their regular rate account (i.e. R or RH).

Note 2: CAP D and E Rider customers will continue to receive their CAP discount as well as have the opportunity to shop for another electric supplier. CAP Rate customers can call 1-800-494-4000 to obtain the price to compare for their rate class.

What is the Gross Receipts Tax and how is it factored into Price-To-Compare?
The Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) is a Pennsyvania state tax imposed on the gross receipts from sales of electric energy within Pennsylvania. PECO's Price To Compare includes an adjustment for GRT. To adjust its prices for the GRT percentage rate, PECO multiplies the pre-GRT price by a factor equal to 1/ (1 - GRT%). 

For example, if the GRT rate was 5.9%, the adjustment factor for GRT would be 1/(1 - .059), or 1.0627.

Energy Delivery
When electricity travels from a power plant, where it is generated, to an electrical facility, like a substation in a neighborhood, this is called transmission. Moving electricity from the electrical facility to your home is called distribution.

You currently pay PECO for both of these services. PECO will continue to provide distribution service to all customers. If you choose another supplier, PECO will no longer  charge for generation and transmission service. Instead, your supplier will charge for these services.

Metering Choices
In the past, PECO owned, maintained and read your meter. As of January 1999, you have the option to receive advanced metering service from PECO and those suppliers who provide this service.

Advanced metering can be installed at your home and read remotely -- without someone visiting your property each month. If you decide to have your supplier provide advanced metering service, the supplier will replace the existing meter. You should discuss the charges and terms for advanced metering service with your supplier.

Currently, PECO's metering service charges are included in the customer charge that appears on your monthly bill. Residential customers currently pay PECO $1.39 each month for metering service. If you decide to receive advanced metering service from another supplier, PECO will no longer charge you for metering service. Instead, your supplier will charge you for this service.

Billing Choices
Suppliers may offer you one or more of the following billing options:

Option 1: One bill from your supplier which will list PECO's electric distribution charges and your supplier's generation and transmission charges. If you choose this billing option, PECO will no longer charge you for billing service. Instead, your supplier will apply a charge.

Option 2: One bill from PECO containing PECO's electric distribution charges and your supplier's generation and transmission charges. The charge for this service will remain a part of PECO's customer charge as it does today.

Option 3: Two separate bills, one from PECO listing your electric distribution charges, and one bill from your supplier, listing your generation and transmission charges. You will need to contact your supplier to find out if the supplier has a billing charge under this billing scenario.

Note: If you receive electric and gas service from PECO, and you decide to have your supplier provide you with one electric bill, you'll continue to receive a separate bill from PECO for your gas service.