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Delaware

Electricity Rates

Residential = 9 cents/kwh (National ranking: 14)

Commerical = 7 cents/kwh
(National ranking: 18)

Industrial = 5 cents/kwh(National ranking: 17)

kwh = kilowatt hour
1st ranking = highest rate in catagory

Deregulation

Delaware completed its implementation of a 1999 deregulation bill by allowing all of the state’s customers to choose utility service starting in August 2000. The state has imposed a rate cut for all customers and allowed utilities to recover the costs of transitioning to a competitive marketplace.

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