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Pennsylvania Electricity Rates: June 2026 Reset Confirms More Increases

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Competitive supplier pricing and recent procurement results pointed in the same direction. The Pennsylvania PUC has now confirmed that utility default rates will increase again on June 1st, and likely not for the last time.

May 2026 update: On May 20, 2026, the Pennsylvania PUC published official June 1 Price to Compare updates for residential default service customers. The confirmed increases align with the forward-market pressure this analysis identified in March.

Main Points

Pennsylvania utility rates are up 19-27% over the past year, and the PUC has now confirmed another round of June 1 default service increases.
PJM capacity charges step up again on June 1, 2026, compounding last year's historic increase, while wholesale energy prices have also risen.

Pennsylvania Utilities June 1 Rate Updates Confirmed

The Pennsylvania PUC has now confirmed that most residential default service customers will see higher utility generation rates on June 1, 2026. These changes apply to customers who have not selected a competitive electric generation supplier. Customers already shopping with a supplier continue paying the generation price set by their contract.

Utility	Current PTC	June 1 PTC	Change
Duquesne Light	13.75¢	14.14¢	+2.84%
Met-Ed	12.965¢	13.951¢	+7.6%
PECO	11.024¢	11.572¢	+4.97%
Penelec	11.747¢	13.142¢	+11.88%
Penn Power	12.606¢	13.477¢	+6.9%
PPL	12.953¢	13.147¢	+1.5%
UGI Electric	11.212¢	12.617¢	+12.53%
West Penn Power	10.947¢	12.075¢	+10.3%

Source: Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission June 1 residential Price to Compare update, published May 20, 2026. The PUC lists some values as estimated and also includes smaller utilities not tracked in Grid Shopper's Pennsylvania utility pages.

PECO PPL Duquesne Light Met-Ed Penelec Penn Power West Penn Power

The confirmed increases range from modest in PPL's territory to double-digit jumps for Penelec, UGI Electric, and West Penn Power. PECO's residential Price to Compare rises from 11.024¢/kWh to 11.572¢/kWh, while PPL moves from 12.953¢/kWh to 13.147¢/kWh.

This official update confirms the signal that was visible earlier in the year. As of early March 2026, most Pennsylvania utilities had completed procurement for the June 2026 through December 2026 period. Those auction results pointed to a continued upward trend in utility rates, though the June 2026 increases are still less severe than the June 2025 jump that followed the first major capacity cost shock.

The timing matters. The rates in effect for December 2025 through May 2026 are a blended average of tranches purchased over the prior 12 to 18 months. Many of those tranches were locked in when wholesale prices were lower and when capacity costs still reflected the less expensive 2025-2026 delivery year.

The new rates starting June 1 still include some earlier, cheaper supply, but they will also incorporate newer procurement at materially higher costs. So even after Pennsylvania utilities move to their June 2026 default service rates, those numbers may still lag current market conditions.

For background on the PJM capacity auction results that drove last year's increases, see Grid Shopper's PJM capacity auction analysis.

What Is Being Done to Help Consumers

Governor Shapiro has been the most aggressive governor in the PJM footprint on electricity cost issues, but nearly all of that work has been aimed at wholesale market structure rather than near-term retail bill relief.

The price collar. In December 2024, Shapiro sued PJM over its capacity auction design. That fight helped produce a settlement establishing a price cap on the auction, later approved by FERC and then extended further into future delivery years. Those measures likely prevented even larger price spikes, but they represent avoided increases, not reductions from prior consumer bills. The Pennsylvania Capital-Star reported on the extension of that price cap framework.

Cost causation for data centers. A January 2026 statement of principles signed by Shapiro, other governors, and federal officials called for assigning the cost of new long-term capacity contracts to large new loads such as data centers rather than broadly socializing those costs across households and small businesses. If adopted, that would help limit future increases. It would not lower the current baseline. The document is available from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Load forecast accountability. New Pennsylvania law also gives the PUC authority to review and validate utility load forecasts submitted to PJM. That matters because utilities have a financial incentive to attract large loads like data centers into their territories, which grows their rate base. That creates a risk that utilities overstate feasible demand growth in their forecasts, or count projects that are shopping for interconnection across multiple utility territories as incremental load in each one. Inflated load forecasts feed directly into PJM's capacity demand curve, which in turn drives higher auction clearing prices. The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania has a useful writeup on the ratepayer rationale behind that law.

These are meaningful actions aimed at protecting consumers from future rate increases, though unlikely to lower bills in the near term.

Pennsylvania Electricity Rates: June 2026 Reset Confirms More Increases

Setting the Stage on Recent Rate Trends

Pennsylvania Utilities June 1 Rate Updates Confirmed

What Does the Competitive Market Tell Us?

What Is Behind the Continued Rate Increases

Where Is the New Demand Coming From

What Is Being Done to Help Consumers

What Are Other States Doing

What Can Consumers Do

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