What Electric Choice means for you:
In 1998 Pennsylvania deregulated electricity, allowing ALL electric
customers to shop for a portion of their electric service.
As part of deregulation, your utility bill was “unbundled" into five
separate charges:
Customer charge - a basic service charge to
cover the costs of reading your electric meter and billing you. Under electric deregulation, this remains a charge
from your utility.
Distribution charges - the cost to deliver
electricity from the electric distribution facility to your home. Under electric deregulation, this remains a charge
from your utility.
Transition charges - a charge on every
customer's bill designed to help the utility recover costs incurred from
investments in power plants when the electric industry was fully regulated.
This is a charge from your utility.
Customer, distribution and
transition charges continue to be set by the
Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission and billed by PECO, but you have
the opportunity to choose from a variety of energy sources and service
providers for your generation and
transmission charges.
Generation charges - the cost of actually
producing your electricity.
Transmission charges - the cost to transport
your electricity from where it is generated to a utility distribution
facility near your home or business.
You may choose suppliers for your generation
and transmission charges based on their prices,
their incentives or bonuses, their length of contracts or their sources of
electricity (how their electricity is produced).
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