Duquesne Light Co late fee
Pennsylvania · Investor Owned
Duquesne Light Co 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
- 434,171
Late fees versus bad debt, 2024
- Late-fee revenue
- $4,759,960 (FERC account 450, Forfeited Discounts)
- Written off
- $14,752,996 (FERC account 904, Uncollectible Accounts)
- Ratio
- 0.32x
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
- 26,746 for non-payment
- Rate
- 4.86 per 100 residential customers
- Final notices
- 102,413
- Reconnections
- 20,150
Counts are disconnection events, not households. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-112. See how this compares.
1.5% per month on overdue balance (Pennsylvania PUC standard, 52 Pa. Code 56.22; Duquesne Light Tariff No. 25).
Source: https://duquesnelight.com/service-reliability/service-map/rates/tariff-resources