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Understanding Electricity Utility With Comparison Junction: A Step Forward To Smarter Energy Choices
Your utility delivers the energy. Your supplier sets the price. Understanding the difference helps you save.
How Are Electricity Providers And Utility Companies Different?
A utility company owns and maintains the physical infrastructure — power lines, gas pipes, meters, transformers — that delivers energy from generators to your home or business. Utilities are regulated monopolies in their service territories, which means you can't shop for a different utility.
In deregulated states, your supplier (the company you can choose) sells you the energy commodity at a per-kWh or per-therm rate. Your utility (your fixed local provider) delivers it through its grid and bills you for the delivery portion at regulated rates.
What This Means For You
- You shop the supplier portion only. Switching suppliers can save 10–30% on the commodity charge.
- Your utility, meter, and outage response stay identical. Switching has no effect on service quality.
- Outages are utility issues — call your utility (not your supplier) when the power goes out.
Major Utilities in Deregulated States
Find your local utility company — they deliver, your supplier (which you choose) sets the rate.
Oncor
Texas
North & West Texas, Midland, Dallas-Fort Worth
CenterPoint Energy
Texas
Houston metro area
AEP Texas
Texas
South & Central Texas
TNMP
Texas
West Texas, Gulf Coast
ComEd
Illinois
Northern Illinois, Chicago area
Ameren Illinois
Illinois
Central and Southern Illinois
AEP Ohio
Ohio
Central and Southern Ohio
Duke Energy Ohio
Ohio
Cincinnati metro area
FirstEnergy (Ohio Edison, CEI, Toledo Edison)
Ohio
Northern Ohio
PECO
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia and SE Pennsylvania
PPL Electric Utilities
Pennsylvania
Central and Eastern Pennsylvania
Duquesne Light
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh metro area
Con Edison
New York
New York City and Westchester County
National Grid
New York
Upstate New York, Massachusetts
Eversource
Connecticut
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
BGE
Maryland
Baltimore metro area, Central Maryland
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