Rockland Electric (NJ) rates: who it is, what you pay and what an offer must beat

Almost. Rockland Electric Company is a subsidiary of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R). O&R says it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. (Con Edison) in 1999. O&R's own page names Rockland Electric as its subsidiary. That page's figures are dated June 1, 2016, and we found no newer ownership statement.

Rockland Electric posts its New Jersey tariff and price sheets on O&R's website, oru.com. That is why a search for "Rockland Electric" lands on a New York company's pages. The state's Rate Counsel page calls the company "Orange and Rockland Electric Company." The tariff and the BPU's own orders say Rockland Electric Company. They mean the same utility.

Rockland Electric had 66,525 home accounts in the BPU's September 2026 switching report. Rate Counsel's page says about 72,000 customers in all.

It is your default supply price, in cents per kWh. You pay it if you pick no supplier. NJ Power Switch, the BPU's shopping site, says it covers the average cost of generation and transmission, and Rockland Electric's tariff says its charges include sales tax. Delivery is billed apart.

RECO's tariff splits its area into an Eastern division (Bergen County), a Central division (Passaic) and a Western division (Sussex). The BPU's own notice says the Central and Western divisions sit outside the PJM grid, so RECO blends a separate energy and capacity price for them into its supply rates. RECO posts one price sheet for Bergen County and one for Passaic and Sussex counties.

The sheet runs from June 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027, and the winter price started October 1, 2026. Notice the summer split. Past 600 kWh in a summer month, the price jumps. A home that cools with air conditioning can cross that line fast.

The line the price sheet leaves out

At the top of each price sheet, RECO writes "Excludes BGS Reconciliation Charge." BGS stands for Basic Generation Service, the default supply. Every quarter RECO compares what it paid its suppliers with what it collected, and bills or credits the gap. The tariff caps that line at 2.0 cents per kWh, up or down. It applies to default-service homes. Homes with a supplier do not get it.

On September 1, 2026, the line was -2.000¢ per kWh. A minus sign is a credit, which lowers what a default-service home pays. That matters when you test an offer: the price you must beat is the sheet's price plus this line.

RECO's NJ rates page lists no file for September 2025. These past lines never change, and the table lists the quarters up to Sept. 1, 2026. The line for the current quarter comes from the same RECO files. The number at the top of this page is always the current one.

Pick your town, then type the offer's price per kWh with tax and any monthly fee. Add your use for a winter month and a summer month. The tool uses the right price for your county, splits summer use at 600 kWh, and tests the offer two ways: against the published price, and against what a default-service home pays after this quarter's line.

1. 1
   Pick your town.

   It sets Bergen or Passaic and Sussex prices.

2. 2
   Type the offer's price.

   Use cents per kWh, such as 15.50, with tax.

3. 3
   Add any monthly fee.

   Type 0 if there is none.

4. 4
   Check your use.

   925 kWh is the BPU's typical RECO home. Your bill shows yours.

"Costs more" is money the offer would take from you. "Saves" is money you keep. It is an estimate of the supply price only, not a bill, and it leaves out delivery, the contract's fine print and any later change in RECO's reconciliation line.

Your bill has two big halves. You can shop for supply, the power itself. You cannot shop for delivery, the poles, wires and meter. RECO charges delivery whoever sells you the power, and it also answers outages.

RECO's tariff, effective July 1, 2026, lists a $6.00 monthly customer charge and a delivery charge of 6.886¢ per kWh for the first 600 kWh all year. Above 600 kWh in June to September it is 8.671¢. A separate adjustment line of -1.416¢ (-1.783¢ above 600 kWh in summer) lowers those. These include sales tax.

Delivery rates rose in July 2026. On June 30, 2026, the BPU approved a settlement in RECO's rate case (docket ER25060374). It lets RECO collect $15.25 million more a year ($16.26 million with sales tax), about 4.6% more in all. The BPU says a typical home using 925 kWh a month goes from $247.91 to $261.94, a rise of about $14.03 or 5.7%, using rates in effect on March 1, 2026.

A delivery rise is not something a supplier can change. Our high bill guide shows how to find which line moved on your own bill.

RECO lists 25 New Jersey communities in a May 24, 2024 company notice, and its tariff lists the same 25 towns. Several are served only in part. If your town is marked "part," the name at the top of your bill is the answer.

PSE&G delivers in other parts of Bergen and Passaic counties, and JCP&L in other parts of Passaic and Sussex. A ZIP code can cross a utility line, so go by your bill. Our New Jersey rates guide sets all four big utilities side by side.

NJ Power Switch lists 35 suppliers that may sell to Rockland Electric homes, out of 68 licensed for homes in the state. A licence is not an open plan. The state's list links each supplier's own page and shows no prices.

What the plan finder showed. On Oct. 25, 2026 we entered two Rockland Electric ZIP codes in the plan finder on this page: 07430 (Mahwah) and 07446 (Ramsey). Both said there were currently no offers. A ZIP that RECO does not serve, 07423 (Ho-Ho-Kus), showed 11 plans. We did not test every Rockland Electric ZIP, and the finder changes, so try yours. If it shows nothing, that is a real answer, not an error on your side.

So how do you compare? Read each supplier's own price page from the state's list, and check the name on the state's list first. Use the checker above for each quote. Our supplier guide has the questions to ask. Looking at a green plan? Read what a green plan really buys.

Few homes switch

In September 2026, 2,201 of Rockland Electric's 66,525 home accounts bought from a supplier. That is 3.3%. It is the lowest share of New Jersey's four big utilities in that report. The state does not publish what suppliers charge, so the count shows who switched, not who saved.

Call Rockland Electric at 1-877-434-4100, the number in its tariff. O&R's outage texting page says to text "OUT" to 678797 and follow the prompts, then "STATUS" to the same number to check on it. O&R's outage map shows outages for its whole area.

If you cannot settle a bill or a supplier problem with RECO, the BPU takes complaints at 1-800-624-0241. Report outages to the utility, not to a supplier.

Your default price can change in three ways. The reconciliation line moves each quarter. The supply price resets on a yearly schedule. Delivery moves only with a BPU rate order.

1. Dec. 1, 2026The next quarter of the reconciliation line starts. It can be a charge, a credit or zero.
2. Feb. 8, 2027The statewide auction that sets next year's supply price for homes starts.
3. June 1, 2027New supply prices start. If you buy from RECO, your price changes even if you do nothing.

RECO filed its plan for the 2027 supply purchase with the BPU on July 1, 2026 (docket ER26040105), and the BPU held a public hearing on Sept. 10, 2026. A fixed supplier price does not change on June 1, but it can end up above or below RECO's new price. Test the offer again at renewal time.