PSEG Long Island (LIPA) electric rates and bills
PSEG Long Island (LIPA)'s 1,032,471 default-service customers in New York paid an average of 26.17¢ per kWh in 2025, for an average bill of $194.75 a month on 744 kWh.1 Over the last 12 months (Sep 2025–Aug 2026) the average was 27.71¢, and 26.97¢ in August 2026.2 Another 19 homes on its wires (0.0%) buy their supply elsewhere and pay PSEG Long Island (LIPA) delivery charges averaging 16.43¢ per kWh, plus their supplier's price.
EIA-861 2025 final (released October 7, 2026) and EIA's monthly utility survey through August 2026 (preliminary); next monthly update expected November 24, 2026. Averages are revenue divided by kWh, all charges included: not the rate printed in a tariff.
3 of 62 New York counties served (EIA-861 2025)
Long Island's grid is public power, yet its homes paid 80.6% above the national average for public power in 2025, close to New York's investor-owned utilities. They also use more electricity than most New York homes, 744 kWh a month, so the average bill of $194.751 was higher than at any other large utility in the state that year.
Price per kWh: three dated figures
PSEG Long Island delivers and sells electricity to 1,032,471 homes in Nassau and Suffolk counties and part of Queens. EIA reports it under the owner's legal name, the Long Island Power Authority. Those customers paid an average of 26.17¢ per kWh in 2025, 0.8% below the New York average. Among the 10 New York utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers it was the 4th highest, and nationally it ranked 15th highest of 1771 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers.
EIA's monthly survey gives two more recent readings: 27.71¢ per kWh over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) and 26.97¢ per kWh in August 20263, −1.4%2 against the same month a year earlier. All three are average revenue per kWh: what residential customers were billed in total, divided by the kWh they used. The figure folds in the monthly service charge and the power supply charge, so it will not match any single per-kWh line on a PSEG Long Island bill or in LIPA's tariff.
Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility; EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Residential revenue divided by kWh in each month, as reported to EIA's monthly survey (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary). Bundled (default-service) customers only.
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| Month | PSEG Long Island (LIPA) (¢/kWh) | kWh per customer | Bill per customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | 24.57¢ | 791 | $194.33 |
| February 2025 | 24.51¢ | 657 | $160.93 |
| March 2025 | 25.37¢ | 601 | $152.43 |
| April 2025 | 25.39¢ | 520 | $132.06 |
| May 2025 | 27.82¢ | 571 | $158.74 |
| June 2025 | 27.70¢ | 858 | $237.65 |
| July 2025 | 26.34¢ | 1,271 | $334.92 |
| August 2025 | 27.34¢ | 977 | $267.01 |
| September 2025 | 27.96¢ | 727 | $203.31 |
| October 2025 | 25.43¢ | 569 | $144.67 |
| November 2025 | 25.90¢ | 600 | $155.34 |
| December 2025 | 24.83¢ | 788 | $195.72 |
| January 2026 | 25.67¢ | 812 | $208.47 |
| February 2026 | 27.40¢ | 745 | $204.08 |
| March 2026 | 29.78¢ | 637 | $189.79 |
| April 2026 | 30.51¢ | 532 | $162.37 |
| May 2026 | 29.84¢ | 601 | $179.37 |
| June 2026 | 30.19¢ | 875 | $264.27 |
| July 2026 | 28.48¢ | 1,119 | $318.57 |
| August 2026 | 26.97¢ | 1,107 | $298.47 |
Public power with an investor-owned price
LIPA is a state authority, and PSEG Long Island, a private company, has run LIPA's electric system day to day since January 1, 2014, according to the New York State Department of Public Service. Rates are not set by the Public Service Commission as they are for Con Edison or National Grid: the LIPA Board of Trustees decides on them, based on recommendations from the Department's Long Island office.
Public ownership does not make Long Island's electricity cheap. Public power utilities across the US averaged 14.49¢ per kWh for residential customers in 2025, and PSEG Long Island's 26.17¢ per kWh was 80.6% above the national average for public power. Within New York, LIPA accounts for 1,032,471 of the state's 1,099,467 public power residential customers, so the state's public power average (24.61¢ per kWh) largely reflects Long Island. New York's investor-owned utilities averaged 26.95¢ per kWh1.
Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.
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| Utility | average residential price (bundled customers) |
|---|---|
| National Grid (NY) | 19.89¢ |
| RG&E (NY) | 22.01¢ |
| NYSEG (NY) | 22.59¢ |
| PSEG Long Island (LIPA) (NY) | 26.17¢ |
| Orange & Rockland (NY) | 26.21¢ |
| Central Hudson (NY) | 27.67¢ |
| Con Edison (NY) | 36.74¢ |
Why the bill is higher than the price suggests
A Long Island home used 744 kWh a month on average in 2025, against 586 kWh for New York as a whole and 373 kWh in Con Edison's territory. That is still below the US average of 874 kWh, but at a New York price it produced an average bill of $194.751, against $154.75 statewide and $150.684 nationally.
Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.
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| Utility | average monthly residential bill |
|---|---|
| National Grid (NY) | $129.73 |
| Con Edison (NY) | $137.10 |
| RG&E (NY) | $153.76 |
| NYSEG (NY) | $168.05 |
| Orange & Rockland (NY) | $181.87 |
| Central Hudson (NY) | $192.60 |
| PSEG Long Island (LIPA) (NY) | $194.75 |
From 2024 to 2025 the average price rose 6.5%, from 24.57¢ per kWh to 26.17¢ per kWh, and the average bill went from $181.50 to $194.75 (+7.3%) on nearly unchanged use (739 kWh5 and 744 kWh). Several upstate utilities rose faster over the same year: NYSEG's average +23.3%, RG&E's +17.3% and National Grid's +15.5%1. Over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) the average bill was $210.42 for 759 kWh2 a month.
Households that struggle with these bills can apply for New York's Home Energy Assistance Program, funded by the federal LIHEAP grant: $401.2 million6 for the state in fiscal year 2026.
The July peak
EIA's monthly data for PSEG Long Island over the last 12 months put the low point in April 2026, at 532 kWh per home and an average bill of $162.37, and the peak in July 2026, at 1,119 kWh and $318.57. New York's statewide residential peak in the same period was 784 kWh3 per home. National Grid's peak month upstate was January 20262; on Long Island the summer bill is the one to budget for.
Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility. kWh per residential customer in each month (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary). The table adds the average bill and price for the month.
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| Month | kWh per customer | Bill per customer | ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 727 | $203.31 | 27.96¢ |
| October 2025 | 569 | $144.67 | 25.43¢ |
| November 2025 | 600 | $155.34 | 25.90¢ |
| December 2025 | 788 | $195.72 | 24.83¢ |
| January 2026 | 812 | $208.47 | 25.67¢ |
| February 2026 | 745 | $204.08 | 27.40¢ |
| March 2026 | 637 | $189.79 | 29.78¢ |
| April 2026 | 532 | $162.37 | 30.51¢ |
| May 2026 | 601 | $179.37 | 29.84¢ |
| June 2026 | 875 | $264.27 | 30.19¢ |
| July 2026 | 1,119 | $318.57 | 28.48¢ |
| August 2026 | 1,107 | $298.47 | 26.97¢ |
The most rooftop solar in New York
EIA counted 95,569 net-metered residential solar installations on PSEG Long Island's system in 2025, 92.6 per 1,000 residential customers, with 692.0 megawatts of capacity. New York as a whole had 33.7 per 1,000; among the state's other large utilities the next highest were Central Hudson (67.3) and Orange & Rockland (65.8), and Con Edison had 26.07. A net-metered home buys less electricity from the grid, which lowers its own bill and the kWh in the averages above.
Advanced meters were installed at 99.3% of residential meters in 2025, against 85.8% statewide. Time-varying pricing reached far fewer homes: 9,735 residential customers (0.9%), in a program EIA records as critical peak rebates7. Current rate options and their hours are in PSEG Long Island's published tariff.
Almost no one buys supply elsewhere
Most New York utilities deliver power to a share of homes that buy their supply from an energy service company (ESCO); statewide, 7.3% of residential customers did so in 2025. On Long Island the share was 0.0%: EIA counted 19 delivery-only residential accounts. That group is too small for its delivery-only average (16.43¢ per kWh1) to say anything about a typical home, so the full-service figures above are the ones that describe what Long Island households pay.
Outages below the state average
PSEG Long Island customers averaged 68 minutes without power in 2025 including major events, fewer than the New York average of 116 minutes, and 62 minutes excluding them, with 0.798 interruptions per customer. The utility reports under another method (not IEEE 1366), so comparisons with utilities that use the IEEE 1366 standard are approximate.
Where PSEG Long Island serves
EIA's service-territory records list PSEG Long Island in 3 counties: Nassau County, Queens County and Suffolk County9. In all of them at least one other distribution utility also reports customers, so the county does not settle which utility serves a home; PSEG Long Island's service map decides by address.
Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 3 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.
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| County | Other utilities reporting service |
|---|---|
| Nassau County | Village of Freeport, Village of Rockville Centre |
| Queens County | Con Edison, North Shore Towers Apts |
| Suffolk County | Village of Greenport, Fishers Island Utility Co |
Businesses on Long Island
The 132,785 commercial customers paid an average of 23.17¢ per kWh in 2025, with an average monthly bill of $1,205.91. Across all customer classes the average was 24.60¢ per kWh1. For the statewide picture, see electricity in New York, and for the city next door, Con Edison.
Questions and answers
What is the PSEG Long Island rate per kWh?
Residential customers paid an average of 26.17¢ per kWh1 in 2025 and 27.71¢ per kWh2 over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026, 2026 months preliminary). Both are total residential revenue divided by kWh sold, so they include the monthly service charge, power supply charges and adjustments. They are averages, not a line from LIPA's tariff.
What is the average PSEG Long Island electric bill?
$194.75 a month in 2025 for 744 kWh1, and $210.42 over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026). In EIA's monthly data the average bill ranged from $144.67 in October 2025 to $318.57 in July 20262.
Did PSEG Long Island rates go up in 2026?
The 12-month average to August 2026, 27.71¢ per kWh, is above the 2025 average of 26.17¢ per kWh1. In August 20263 alone the average was 26.97¢ per kWh, −1.4%2 against August 2025. Monthly 2026 figures are preliminary.
Who sets LIPA's electric rates?
The LIPA Board of Trustees decides on rates, based on recommendations from the New York State Department of Public Service, which oversees LIPA and PSEG Long Island.
Related pages
Sources
- EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility; table sales_ult_cust_2025 and _2026; released October 23, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state; table sales_revenue.xlsx (EPM Table 5.6.A); January 2001 to 2026-08; months since January 2026 preliminary; released October 23, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, average monthly bill by state; table Average_Bill_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2024; 2024, final (file updated December 3, 2025); released December 3, 2025. www.eia.gov
- HHS, LIHEAP funding releases to states; table FY2027 first release; FY2026 final; FY2027 first release (October 9, 2026); FY2026 total; released October 9, 2026. acf.gov
- EIA-861 2025, advanced meters, dynamic pricing and net metering; table Advanced_Meters, Dynamic_Pricing, Net_Metering 2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, reliability; table Reliability_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- EIA-861 2025, service territory; table Service_Territory_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
- Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties; table cb_2025_us_county_5m; cb_2021_us_county_5m; 2025 (2021 for Connecticut). www.census.gov
How every figure is built: methodology. Found an error? Write to [email protected]; corrections are listed on the updates page.