01/26/2026
This looks promising.
However, it's not clear to me avg. $23/mo savings for 3-4 months of the year is worth the switch if your bill is $150 or more and you have features like clean renewable supply that you like (and that in some cases you may get for lower than the default 'rate to compare').
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1PRJLF9P2G/
📉 Philadelphia’s weather is downright tropical in the summer, but that can be hard to remember in January as residents crank up the heat and dread the monthly heating bills. PECO’s residential heating rate takes out some of the sting for households that heat with electric power.
PECO’s “RH” rate, as they label it, “is designed for customers who heat their homes with electric systems, such as electric baseboards, electric furnaces, or heat pumps,” according to a PECO spokesperson who wrote to Grid. The rate, which applies from October through June, reduces the distribution charge by about 2.3 cents per kilowatt-hour, so that a customer using 1,000 kWh per month would save about $23 per month.
Joline Price, an attorney at Community Legal Services, works with clients to get their utility bills down. She finds that the residential heating rate can help clients who earn too much money to qualify for other savings. “We serve households up to 200% of the federal poverty level, and PECO’s low-income program caps out at 150% of the federal poverty level. So when someone is in between, and using electricity for heating, they’ll save money when they go on the residential heating rate.”
➡️ Read the full story at https://gridphilly.com/blog-home/2026/01/01/peco-gives-a-discount-to-customers-heating-with-electric/
✍️ Bernard Brown
