Business Electricity Rates & Commercial Energy Plans
Compare commercial electricity and natural gas rates for property managers, small businesses, schools, and merchants across Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut.
Get a Custom QuoteChoose the segment that best fits your business
Each segment has different usage patterns, contract needs, and procurement requirements. Pick the closest match to start a custom quote request.
Property Management
Multi-site portfolios, common-area accounts, and pass-through billing across residential and mixed-use properties.
Get a Custom QuoteSchools & Nonprofits
Budget-sensitive accounts with seasonal load, campus aggregation, and procurement policies to work within.
Get a Custom QuoteMerchants & Retail
Storefronts, restaurants, and small chains with long operating hours and demand-driven cost pressure.
Get a Custom QuoteSmall Business
Offices, service businesses, and single-location operators who need straightforward pricing without a procurement team.
Get a Custom QuoteHow commercial electricity differs from residential
Business electricity rates and commercial electricity rates are built differently than the rates a household sees. Residential pricing is largely a function of the kilowatt-hours you use in a month. Commercial pricing brings in three more variables that materially change the number a supplier will offer: total usage volume across the year, the shape of your load across the day, and your peak demand in kilowatts.
Usage volume matters because suppliers compete harder on larger annual footprints. A property management portfolio with a dozen common-area meters and a corner bodega with a single meter are quoted on very different terms — not because one is favored, but because the underlying cost structure a supplier hedges against is different.
Load profile — when during the day you actually use electricity — is the piece most business owners don't realize is priced. A school that pulls hard from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and drops in summer, a retail storefront that runs refrigeration around the clock, and a professional office that mirrors a nine-to-five workday all have different profiles. Suppliers layer those profiles against wholesale prices when they build a quote.
Peak demand is the highest kilowatt draw your building hits at any point in the billing cycle. Above certain thresholds, your utility places the meter in a demand-metered rate class, which is a category residential customers effectively never see. Rate class then dictates the tariff, the components on the utility side of your bill, and the way suppliers structure their offer.
Because those four factors — usage volume, load profile, peak demand, and rate class — combine differently for every account, business electricity rates are custom-quoted. Share your usage or a recent utility bill and we'll source options from our supplier network built around your specific account.
Frequently asked questions
Q: Which states do you cover for business electricity rates?
A: We source commercial electricity and natural gas quotes for deregulated markets including Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut. If your account sits in another deregulated state, we'll let you know whether we can quote it before you invest time in the request.
Q: How are commercial electricity rates different from the residential rate I pay at home?
A: Residential rates are priced primarily on kilowatt-hours used. Commercial rates layer in annual usage volume, load profile across the day, peak demand in kilowatts, and utility rate class. That's why two accounts in the same ZIP code — one home, one storefront — can be quoted very differently.
Q: What do I need to send you to get a custom quote?
A: At minimum: business name, contact information, state, and either monthly kilowatt-hour usage or a recent utility bill. For multi-site accounts, a list of addresses and account numbers speeds things up. Our commercial team follows up if suppliers need more detail.
Q: Do you show public business electricity rates on the site?
A: No — business rates are custom-quoted per account because the pricing inputs vary so much. Any generic per-kilowatt-hour number shown on a public page would rarely reflect what your account would actually be offered, so we source pricing individually instead.