Delmarva Power late fee
Delaware, Maryland · Investor Owned
Delmarva Power charges 1.5% for a residential electric bill paid late.
- Percentage fee
- 1.5% of the past-due balance
- Can disconnect
- Yes, for non-payment
- Percentile
- Higher than 14% of US utilities that charge a percentage fee
- Residential customers
- 447,026
Late fees versus bad debt, 2024
- Late-fee revenue
- $3,302,657 (FERC account 450, Forfeited Discounts)
- Written off
- $9,548,992 (FERC account 904, Uncollectible Accounts)
- Ratio
- 0.35x
Source: US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC Form 1, accounts 450 and 904 (18 CFR Part 101), retrieved via the Public Utility Data Liberation project. Municipal utilities and most cooperatives do not file Form 1, so no ratio is available for them.
Disconnections in 2024
- Disconnections
- 27,562 for non-payment
- Rate
- 5.64 per 100 residential customers
- Final notices
- 120,004
- Reconnections
- 22,494
Counts are disconnection events, not households. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-112. See how this compares.
1.5%/mo of unpaid balance (Delmarva Power / Exelon DE & MD)
Source: https://www.delmarva.com/MyAccount/MyService/Pages/FeesandPayment.aspx