City of Newark - (DE) late fee
Delaware · Municipal
City of Newark - (DE) charges 5% for a residential electric bill paid late.
- Percentage fee
- 5% of the past-due balance
- Can disconnect
- Yes, for non-payment
- Percentile
- Higher than 51% of US utilities that charge a percentage fee
- Residential customers
- 11,888
Disconnections in 2024
- Disconnections
- 324 for non-payment
- Rate
- 2.41 per 100 residential customers
- Final notices
- 9,999
- Reconnections
- 314
Counts are disconnection events, not households. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-112. See how this compares.
5% late penalty (harvested from newarkde.gov).
Source: https://newarkde.gov/faq.aspx?TID=19 https://newarkde.gov/FAQ.aspx