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What is the PJM capacity charge in District of Columbia?

$120.15District of Columbia: yearly cost of 1 kW in the PEPCO zone, delivery year 2026/27

318,780 of 318,780 homes (100%) sit in 1 mapped utility; the main zone is Pepco. Pepco is the largest at 100% of mapped homes.

District of Columbia utilities and their PJM zones

District of Columbia utilities by zone, price columns in dollars per MW-day
UtilityZoneDistrict of Columbia homesShareDistrict of Columbia kWh/mo1 kW cents/kWh 2026/272024/25 $2026/27 $
PepcoPEPCO318,780100.0%5921.69$49.49$329.17

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PEPCO against the RTO price

2022/23: $95.79 here, $50.00 RTO-wide; 2023/24: $49.49 here, $34.13 RTO-wide; 2024/25: $49.49 here, $28.92 RTO-wide.

District of Columbia per kWh

PEPCO zone, District of Columbia: 1 kW at $329.17 x 365 / 1,000 = $120.15 a year, against $18.06 for 2024/25.

District of Columbia homes average 592 kWh a month (EIA-861, 2024). 1 kW per kWh: 0.25 cents at 2024/25, 1.69 at 2026/27. District of Columbia average price 2025: 21.94 cents.

investor-owned 100% of homes at 16.6 cents and 592 kWh a month. Of 1 county, 0% are nonmetro.

District of Columbia against other PJM states

District of Columbia is #6 of 10 on the price ratio, behind West Virginia (11.4x) and ahead of New Jersey (6.1x).

Neighbors with a page: Virginia 11.4x, Maryland 4.5x.

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Sources

1 District of Columbia utilities from EIA-861 2024 and the PJM files listed on the hub.

Questions

Which PJM zone is my District of Columbia utility in?

Pepco: PEPCO.

How many District of Columbia homes does the zone map cover?

318,780 of 318,780 (100%); 0 are served by utilities we leave unmapped.

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Electric Consumer. (2026). District of Columbia capacity charge: $329.17 per MW-day in 2026/27. Data as of 7 October 2026. Retrieved 7 October 2026, from https://electricconsumer.org/capacity-charge/states/district-of-columbia.html

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Electric Consumer. “District of Columbia capacity charge: $329.17 per MW-day in 2026/27.” Electric Consumer, data as of 7 October 2026, https://electricconsumer.org/capacity-charge/states/district-of-columbia.html. Accessed 7 October 2026.

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Electric Consumer. “District of Columbia capacity charge: $329.17 per MW-day in 2026/27.” Data as of 7 October 2026. Accessed 7 October 2026. https://electricconsumer.org/capacity-charge/states/district-of-columbia.html.

BibTeX

@misc{usedata_capacity_charge_states_district_of_columbia,
  author = "Electric Consumer",
  title = {District of Columbia capacity charge: $329.17 per MW-day in 2026/27},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://electricconsumer.org/capacity-charge/states/district-of-columbia.html},
  note = {Data as of 7 October 2026. Accessed 7 October 2026}
}
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