Jamestown Board of Public Utility

About Jamestown Board of Public Utility

Jamestown Board of Public Utility is a municipally owned entity providing electricity in 2 cities in the state of New York. There are 18,325 customers of the provider. Exactly 15,537 of them are residential accounts, 2,667 are commercial customers and 121 of them are industrial customers. Customers of Jamestown Board of Public Utility are billed an average residential electricity rate of 8.66 cents per kilowatt hour. Fortunately for their patrons, this price is lower than both the state and national average prices of 22.66 and 16.22 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. In 2023 Jamestown Board of Public Utility sold 77.56% of their total megawatt hours disposed by way of normal retail sales to end users and 19.00% to other providers on the wholesale market. The megawatt hours sourced by the company came from a blend of electricity generation from power facilities owned by Jamestown Board of Public Utility and supplementary megawatt hours that they procured on the wholesale market. They generated 52,491 megawatt hours and purchased 470,959 wholesale megawatt hours. The total revenue for the company in 2023 from electricity sales was $37,771,400, with $2,533,000 coming from sales to the wholesale market and $31,458,000 from retail sales to end users.

The state average monthly residential electricity bill is $144.84, while the Jamestown Board of Public Utility average is 49.62% less at $73.69 per month. This is the 19th lowest average monthly bill amount for a supplier in the state. Jamestown Board of Public Utility is the 838th largest electricity company out of 3530 electricity companies in the US based on total megawatt hours sold. The company is not associated with any power plants and all of the megawatt hours that they sell to their consumers must be purchased from other providers. The provider's electricity production facilities produce 52,436 megawatt hours by burning natural gas as the fuel source.