Electricity To Power Your Home

Your local utility company will continue to be the contact to handle emergencies, outages and maintenance issues.

The cost of charging an electric car depends on various factors. How often your EV needs charging will depend on how far you plan on driving it. Nationwide, the average cost of electricity is $0.12 per kWh. At that rate, someone who drives their EV 15,000 miles in a year will pay approximately $540 per year, or $45 per month, to power it. That results in substantial savings, as someone driving a gas-powered car over the same yearly distance will pay approximately $1,400 in fuel costs. Click here to learn more about how an electric car can affect your electricity bill.

As a residential or small commercial customer, you will continue to receive a single bill from your utility that will include supply charges from Shipley Energy and charges from the utility.

No, as a supplier of electricity Shipley Energy purchases the power that you use in your home and works with utility companies like UGI and Met-Ed which transport and distribute the energy to your home. Once you become a customer of Shipley Energy, your local utility company will still distribute the energy to your home, handle outages/maintenance and maintain power lines.

No, once you sign up with Shipley Energy we will contact your utility and notify them of your switch.

No. Your electricity will continue to come to your home just like it did before. In fact, it’s the same electricity, just at a great low rate.

Shipley Energy works with multiple generation companies and buys electricity in bulk when pricing in the marketplace is low. We take advantage of seasonality and other factors to get the best prices for our customers. If you do not choose a supplier, your utility, whether it’s PECO, Met-Ed, or a similar company, will bill you at the current market rate, which continually fluctuates, creating pricing uncertainty on a month-to-month basis.

Shipley Energy buys electricity from a generation company, just like your local utility company does. Often we are purchasing power from the same sources as the utility, but are able to take advantage of opportunities in the market place to offer you low prices. Shipley Energy offers both conventional power as well as renewable plans in select parts of PA.

PTC is an essential concept for understanding electric supplier rates in PA. Price-to-compare is a rate generated by your utility company that shows how much you would be paying if you didn’t work with a dedicated supplier like Shipley Energy. In most utilities, you’ll find your PTC listed on your monthly utility bill — if you’re consistently experiencing high bills, it’s time to consider switching providers or changing your rate plan.

Since electricity is traded every day in competitive price markets, the price of energy is always changing. Utility companies typically set their energy supply price to compare (PTC) rate quarterly or twice per year. At Shipley Energy, we update our power price offers every month, which gives us the flexibility to take advantage of favorable price conditions in the market. Our team of energy experts seeks to obtain the most competitive energy pricing available so we can pass the benefits on to you.