Rochester Gas and Electric

About Rochester Gas and Electric

Rochester Gas and Electric operates in 7 counties and is classified as an investor owned entity. The provider last disclosed a total of 324,118 customers, 92.71% of which are residential properties, 7.20% are commercial customers and 0.08% are industrial accounts. Rochester Gas and Electric's consumers spend, on average, 11.36 cents per kilowatt hour for their electricity, which is 39.72% below the average New York price of 18.85 cents. They had total sales and disposition of 3,584,247 megawatt hours in 2020, of which 178,663 were via wholesale channels. The electricity generated in the company’s power plants made up 0.10% of the electricity sourced by the company and the purchase of wholesale electricity made up an additional 99.83%. In 2020, they made a total of $616,283,700 from business activities relating to the sale and transfer of electricity. They had 0.65% of their revenue come from wholesale electricity sales and 62.45% from retail sales to end users.

The nationwide average monthly residential power bill is $117.93, while the Rochester Gas and Electric average is 33.68% less at $78.21 per month. The supplier's consumers are faced with an average of 0.88 electrical outages per customer a year. These outages last an average of 93.46 minutes, while the national average is 1.21 outages per consumer and 122.99 minutes each outage. Electricity production plants associated with or owned by Rochester Gas and Electric produce a total of 1,569 megawatt hours, which is the 675th highest of any supplier in the country. Dams and other hydroelectric facilities owned or operated by the electricity supplier generate 1,569 megawatt hours, ranking the supplier as the 12th largest producer of hydroelectric power in New York out of 60 suppliers.