The Potomac Edison Company Electricity Rates

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 5 utilities reporting residential rates in West Virginia, The Potomac Edison Company comes in cheapest, the lowest reported average price in the state. The state's range runs from The Potomac Edison Company at 12.59¢ to Wheeling Power Co at 17.41¢, so where a household sits inside West Virginia depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 4 other investor owned utilities reporting in West Virginia, which averaged 15.87¢, The Potomac Edison Company is below its own ownership class within the state (-20.7%).

All figures come from the 2024 release, so no comparison mixes vintages. The state figure is customer-weighted across 5 reporting utilities.

Scale and consumption

The Potomac Edison Company reported 135.3K residential customers, ranking 3rd of 5 utilities in West Virginia by customers served and covering 15.8% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 14,554 kWh per customer per year - well above the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $1,833.

Within West Virginia the median reporting utility sells about 10,821 kWh per customer, so The Potomac Edison Company customers use +34.5% against their own state's middle. Consumption this heavy usually tracks electric heating, sustained air-conditioning load or a largely detached-housing territory, which makes the price per kWh bite harder here than the headline rate suggests.

Every utility reporting in West Virginia

All 5 utilities reporting bundled residential service in West Virginia, largest first, with The Potomac Edison Company marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in West Virginia.

Common questions about The Potomac Edison Company rates

How much does The Potomac Edison Company charge per kWh?

The Potomac Edison Company reported an average residential price of 12.59¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.

Is The Potomac Edison Company expensive compared with the rest of West Virginia?

Its average residential price is below the West Virginia customer-weighted average of 15.04¢ per kWh, a difference of -16.2%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 5 utilities reporting residential service in West Virginia.

What is the average electricity bill for The Potomac Edison Company customers?

Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 14,554 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,833 a year, or about $153 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.

Who owns The Potomac Edison Company?

EIA classifies The Potomac Edison Company as Investor Owned, a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Nationally, Investor Owned utilities averaged 17.36¢ per kWh in the 2024 release.

What this page does and does not tell you

• An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
• Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology, why energy prices vary and understanding rate structures.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.