West Penn Power

About West Penn Power

West Penn Power is an investor owned entity with headquarters in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and serving customers in 22 counties in Pennsylvania including counties such as Allegheny County, Westmoreland County, Washington County, Butler County, and Centre County. They presently supply electricity to commercial, residential, transportation and industrial customers, with a total of 481 industrial accounts, 68,018 commercial accounts, one transportation customer and 529,258 residential customer accounts subscribed. West Penn Power charges their customers a residential electricity rate of 14.75 cents per kilowatt hour on average, which is 9.07% less than the average nationwide rate of 16.22 cents. In 2023 West Penn Power had sales to end users totaling 7,215,982 megawatt hours. The purchase of wholesale electricity made up 100.00% of the electricity sourced by the company. In 2023, the supplier earned 80.46% of their revenue from retail electricity sales to end users and 0.23% on the wholesale electricity market. Their total revenue from all electricity related activities was $1,272,652,800.

The nationwide average monthly residential electricity bill is $143.38, while the West Penn Power average is 7.70% lower at $132.34 per month. This is the 1364th lowest average monthly bill amount for a provider in the country. The power grid owned by the supplier experiences 1.03 outages per consumer per year, with outages lasting an average of 160.12 minutes. The nationwide average for other companies is 1.44 outages per customer and 123.49 minutes an outage. Electricity production is not handled in house at the company, as they purchase power at wholesale rates from other companies to then be resold to their customers.