Chesapeake Utilities

About Chesapeake Utilities

Chesapeake Utilities is headquartered in Dover, Delaware and provides electricity in 4 counties within Florida. Recently filed reports by the company showed a total customer base of 30,221 customers. Exactly 25,739 are residential customers, 4,480 are commercial customers and 2 are industrial accounts. Consumers of Chesapeake Utilities pay an average residential electricity rate of 18.64 cents per kilowatt hour, which is 20.11% above Florida's average price of 15.52 cents and 19.22% above the national average of 15.64 cents. In 2022 they sold 661,713 megawatt hours by way of retail sales to end users. The electricity sourced by the company is made up of primarily wholesale purchased megawatt hours, with 679,236 megawatt hours procured by the company.

Consumers of the supplier have an average monthly residential power bill of $183.48. This is 11.22% more than the Florida average of $168.6. The provider is not associated with any electricity generation plants and all of the electricity that they sell to their customers must be purchased from other providers. The grid operated by the company experiences an average of 1.7 outages per consumer each year, with outages lasting roughly 202.7 minutes. The nationwide average for other providers is 1.27 outages per customer and about 137.24 minutes an outage.