JCP&L wants to raise the average customer's electric bill by about $170 a year. What JCP&L is actually asking forThe filing, submitted Friday, would raise the average residential customer's monthly bill by 8.8 percent, about $14.23 a month for a household using 767 kilowatt-hours, or roughly $170 over a year. There's one meaningful catch, and it's the reason this isn't hitting your bill next month. JCP&L Vice President Patricia Mullin added that the company has already improved reliability by 38 percent this year through grid investment. JCP&L wants this money specifically to prevent outages like the ones that just happened over the Fourth of July.