{"id":107239,"date":"2026-02-06T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107239\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:45:07","slug":"pennsylvania-electricity-rates-jump-46-since-2018-outpacing-neighboring-states-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107239\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania electricity rates jump 46% since 2018, outpacing neighboring states \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Electricity rates jumped 46% since 2018 in Pennsylvania, higher than neighboring states like Ohio and Virginia and ahead of the PJM Interconnection average, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifo.state.pa.us\/download.cfm?file=Resources\/Documents\/Electricity_Update_RB_2026_02.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new report<\/a> from the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The IFO said one of the major reasons is the commonwealth\u2019s reliance on natural gas and the price increases in natural gas prices and electricity rates that occurred in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cPennsylvania rates are more sensitive to natural gas than other states due to its high reliance on that fuel source for generation,\u201d IFO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/05\/pennsylvania-electricity-rates-surge-46-since-2018.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/05\/pennsylvania-electricity-rates-surge-46-since-2018.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electricity rates jumped 46% since 2018 in Pennsylvania, higher than neighboring states like Ohio and Virginia and ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51615,51614,51613,51611,28,51612,51610,30,29],"class_list":["post-107239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-electricity-cost","tag-electricity-rate","tag-pa-electricity-cost","tag-pa-electricity-rates","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-electricity-cost","tag-pennsylvania-electricity-rates","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}