Duquesne Light Company

About Duquesne Light Company

Duquesne Light Company is an investor owned organization. The largest county serviced by Duquesne Light Company is Allegheny County, but the company also operates in in 2 counties in the state. On recent government reports, the provider listed a total of 458,427 electricity customers. This total is made up of 91.36% residential customer accounts, 8.56% commercial customer accounts and 0.09% industrial accounts. Duquesne Light Company bills their consumers a residential electricity rate of 17.48 cents per kilowatt hour on average, which is 26.10% above the average state price of 13.86 cents and 23.84% more than the nationwide average of 14.11. About 26,245 megawatt hours were sold to other suppliers through the wholesale market in 2020. The electricity sourced by the provider primarily came from megawatt hours that they procured by way of the wholesale electricity market. They purchased 4,585,690 wholesale megawatt hours. In 2020 the provider had total electricity related revenue of $959,662,000, with 63.92% coming from retail sales and 0.16% from wholesale customers.

Customers of the provider have an average residential electric bill of $113.19. This is 0.66% below the state average of $114.02. The provider currently does not produce their own electricity. Instead, they must purchase that electricity at wholesale prices and then resell it to end consumers. Consumers of the supplier are faced with 0.84 power outages on average per year, with outages lasting around 111 minutes on average. The national averages for these data points are 1.21 outages at 122.99 minutes each.