Form S-8 POS CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2026

Registration No. 333-192198

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

500 Energy Lane

Dover, Delaware 19901

(302) 734-6799

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Jeffrey S. Sylvester

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation

500 Energy Lane

Dover, Delaware 19901

(302) 734-6799

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Jeffrey E. Decker, Esq.

Suzanne Hanselman, Esq.

Baker & Hostetler, LLP

200 S. Orange Avenue, Suite 2300

Orlando, Florida 32801

(407) 649-4000

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-192198) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (the “Company”) on November 8, 2013. The Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment to withdraw and remove from registration the unissued and unsold shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.4867 par value per share, issuable by the Company pursuant to the Registration Statement.

In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of its securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all such securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Yulee, State of Florida, on the 14^th day of August, 2026.

No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements on Form S-8 in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.