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What is the PJM capacity charge in New Jersey?

$120.15New Jersey: yearly cost of 1 kW in the PS zone, delivery year 2026/27

3,600,977 of 3,690,111 homes (98%) sit in 3 mapped utilities; the main zone is Public Service Electric and Gas. Public Service Electric and Gas is the largest at 57% of mapped homes.

New Jersey utilities and their PJM zones

New Jersey utilities by zone, price columns in dollars per MW-day
UtilityZoneNew Jersey homesShareNew Jersey kWh/mo1 kW cents/kWh 2026/272024/25 $2026/27 $
Public Service Electric and GasPS2,056,23157.1%5661.77$53.60$329.17
Jersey Central Power and LightJCPL1,038,25828.8%7911.27$53.60$329.17
Atlantic City ElectricAE506,48814.1%6331.58$53.60$329.17

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PS against the RTO price

2021/22: $204.29 here, $140.00 RTO-wide; 2022/23: $97.86 here, $50.00 RTO-wide; 2023/24: $49.49 here, $34.13 RTO-wide; 2024/25: $53.60 here, $28.92 RTO-wide.

New Jersey per kWh

PS zone, New Jersey: 1 kW at $329.17 x 365 / 1,000 = $120.15 a year, against $19.56 for 2024/25.

New Jersey homes average 645 kWh a month (EIA-861, 2024). 1 kW per kWh: 0.25 cents at 2024/25, 1.55 at 2026/27. New Jersey average price 2025: 22.63 cents.

2 New Jersey utilities serve 89,134 homes outside our map. Largest: Rockland Electric Co, investor-owned, 66,360 homes, 21.0 cents; City of Vineland - (NJ), municipal, 22,774 homes, 17.8 cents.

investor-owned 99% of homes at 19.2 cents and 644 kWh a month; municipal 1% of homes at 17.8 cents and 767 kWh a month. Of 21 counties, 0% are nonmetro.

New Jersey against other PJM states

New Jersey is #7 of 10 on the price ratio, behind District of Columbia (6.7x) and ahead of Pennsylvania (6.1x).

Neighbors with a page: Pennsylvania 6.1x, Delaware 2.0x.

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Sources

3 New Jersey utilities from EIA-861 2024 and the PJM files listed on the hub.

Questions

Which PJM zone is my New Jersey utility in?

Public Service Electric and Gas: PS; Jersey Central Power and Light: JCPL; Atlantic City Electric: AE.

How many New Jersey homes does the zone map cover?

3,600,977 of 3,690,111 (98%); 89,134 are served by utilities we leave unmapped.

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$120.15 New Jersey: yearly cost of 1 kW in the PS zone, delivery year 2026/27

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Electric Consumer. (2026). New Jersey 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/new-jersey.html

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@misc{usedata_capacity_charge_states_new_jersey,
  author = "Electric Consumer",
  title = {New Jersey capacity charge: $329.17 per MW-day in 2026/27},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://electricconsumer.org/capacity-charge/states/new-jersey.html},
  note = {Data as of 7 October 2026. Accessed 7 October 2026}
}
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