PSE&G residential & commercial electricity rate, 2016–2026

What this does and doesn't cover: URDB tracks tariffs filed with the NJ Board of Public Utilities. It stores each rate class as one continuously revised record before roughly 2016, so pre-2016 history isn't recoverable as discrete dated points from this dataset; only the latest snapshot survives. That's why both series start in March 2016. No new PSE&G residential or GLP rate filing appears in this database with an effective date in 2020. The rate that took effect June 2019 stayed in force through May 2021, a two-year span, for both classes. The numbers plotted are each class's base/winter energy rate; PSE&G's actual tariffs use two seasonal rate periods, and residential additionally has a summer inclining-block tier above 600 kWh/month (see the residential table). The commercial line is not a full GLP bill. Unlike residential service, GLP is demand-metered. PSE&G bills a separate flat demand charge of roughly $4 to $14 per kW of peak demand per month, lower in summer and higher in winter, on top of the per-kWh rate charted here. For a business with meaningful peak demand, that charge can be a large share of the total bill, and it isn't captured by this line.

What this costs Roselle Park itself: the rates above are PSE&G's general residential and commercial tariffs, not what the Borough pays. Municipal buildings and streetlights run on their own accounts, and PSE&G bills streetlights under a separate Outdoor Lighting and Unmetered Services tariff, not the commercial GLP schedule charted here. The Borough's own budgets are the direct source for what the town spends, and they go back further than one year. Electricity actual spending was $82,461.71 in 2018, $84,688.41 in 2019, jumped to $136,822.42 in 2020, then fell to $94,214.59 in 2021 and $90,226.58 in 2022, before rising to $113,548.61 in 2024. Street Lighting followed a similar dip and rise: $178,231.01 in 2018, declining each year to $152,932.76 in 2021, then $166,642.48 in 2022 and $213,037.47 in 2024. That is not a steady climb that lines up neatly with the PSE&G filings above. The 2020 spike and the 2021 to 2022 decline happened while PSE&G's commercial per-kWh rate was flat or falling, so that swing looks like a change in municipal usage or billing timing, not a rate effect. The rise from 2022 to 2024 is different: electricity actual spending rose 25.8% and Street Lighting rose 27.8%, while PSE&G's commercial rate went from 6.21¢ and then 8.13¢ during 2022 to 9.83¢ for all of 2024. The Borough raised both 2024 lines partway through the year, electricity from $105,000 to $120,000 and Street Lighting from $205,000 to $215,000 (2025 Introduced Budget, “Budget After Modification”). The larger jump, an 87.9% rise in the commercial rate to 18.48¢ in January 2025, shows up in 2025: the Borough raised its electricity budget midyear from $115,000 to $140,000 and spent $124,730.35, and Street Lighting went from $218,000 to $236,000 with $229,472.28 spent. The 2026 Introduced Budget sets aside $142,000 for electricity and $259,000 for Street Lighting. 2023's actuals come from the Borough's 2023 Report of Audit (Exhibit A-3), because the 2024 budget documents are scanned images without extractable text. For invoice-level detail, kWh used against the filed rate rather than a lump appropriation, the route is an OPRA request to the Borough Clerk for PSE&G invoices and payment records on municipal electric and streetlight accounts, itemized by year. New Jersey's Open Public Records Act sets a seven-business-day response deadline for that kind of request.