JCP&L in New Jersey: programs for its customers
Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) delivers electricity in central and northern New Jersey, outside the PSE&G area.
Programs from JCP&L
The program list for JCP&L is being verified, and nothing appears here until it has been checked against its source.
Programs and rules that apply across New Jersey are on the New Jersey page.
Figures for New Jersey
These describe New Jersey as a whole. They are not JCP&L's own rates or customers.
- What electricity costs
- 23.8 cents per kWhAverage residential price in New Jersey, 2025-06 to 2026-05. The price is up 47.1% over five years.Source: EIA Form 861M, trailing 12 months to 2026-05
- Energy cost against income
- 5.28% of incomeAverage household energy spending in New Jersey, as a share of median household income, 2024.Source: BEA Regional accounts; Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-year estimates; EIA State Energy Data System, 2024
- Rooftop solar
- 390.1 watts per householdResidential small-scale solar capacity in New Jersey, divided by its households, 2024.Source: Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-year estimates; EIA Form 861M small-scale solar, 2024
Grid operator
JCP&L sits in PJM Interconnection (PJM).
Wholesale prices through the day
Wholesale electricity costs more at some hours than at others. The chart averages a year of day-ahead prices, the prices a grid's market sets the day before, for each hour of the day.
In PJM the dearest hours over the last year were 5, 6 and 7 pm Eastern time.
Work you can get done
Installers
No installer is listed for New Jersey yet. Building Energy Group does not rate installers and publishes no reviews.
Sources
- FirstEnergy, parent of JCP&L
- Figures: BEA Regional accounts
- Figures: Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-year estimates
- Figures: EIA Form 861M
- Figures: EIA Form 861M small-scale solar
- Figures: EIA State Energy Data System