State electricity profile · EIA monthly through May 2026
Virginia Electricity
As of May 2026, residential electricity in Virginia costs 17.61¢ per kWh (+15.4% vs May 2025). EIA publishes these figures monthly and this page follows them. Virginia's 2025 annual residential electricity rate is 15.28¢/kWh, 11.7% below the US average. The rate runs below the national average on a mix that is still only 11% renewable. Commercial, industrial and generation-mix figures follow.
- 17.61¢
- May 2026 rate
- +15.4%
- year over year
- 15.28¢/kWh
- Residential rate
- -11.7%
- vs US average
- 11%
- Renewable
- 3.7M
- Customers
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15.28¢/kWh residential, 9.55¢/kWh commercial
In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2025 annual-frequency retail-sales series, Virginia's residential average revenue per kWh is 15.28¢/kWh, with a commercial average of 9.55¢/kWh and an industrial average of 9.45¢/kWh; a separate EIA generation series for 2025 reports 11% of the state's generation from renewables.
- 11.7% below the US average vs national residential average
- 11% renewable generation
The verdict · 2025
Virginia's residential electricity runs 15.28¢/kWh - 11.7% below the 17.30¢/kWh national average, cheaper than 54% of other states, with 11% of its power from renewables.
This is EIA state average revenue per kWh across 3.7M reported residential customers, a benchmark for comparing states, not the tariff on any single bill. Source: EIA retail-sales API, annual frequency.
Annual rate change
What changed in the 2025 annual EIA period
- Virginia's commercial average rose from 8.72¢/kWh to 9.55¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +9.5%.
- Virginia's residential average rose from 14.41¢/kWh to 15.28¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +6.0%.
- Virginia's industrial average rose from 8.99¢/kWh to 9.45¢/kWh between the 2024 and 2025 annual-frequency EIA retail-sales periods, a change of +5.1%.
Who generates Virginia's electricity
Virginia has 714 operable generating units on EIA's inventory totalling 29,423 MW of net summer capacity. The largest single plant is Bath County , a hydroelectric pumped storage station operated by Virginia Electric & Power Co , rated 2,931 MW.
Balancing authorities keep supply and demand matched on the grid; the largest here by capacity are PJM Interconnection, LLC and Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company.
Showing the 16 largest of 245 operable plants in Virginia by net summer capacity.
| Plant | Operator | Technology | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bath County | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Hydroelectric Pumped Storage | – | 2,931 |
| North Anna | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Nuclear | – | 1,893 |
| Surry | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Nuclear | – | 1,676 |
| Greensville County Power Station | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,605 |
| Brunswick County Power Station | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,376 |
| Warren County | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 1,370 |
| Doswell Energy Center | Doswell Ltd Partnership | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 1,198 |
| Tenaska Virginia Generating Station | Tenaska Virginia Partners LP | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 937 |
| Clover | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 877 |
| Ladysmith | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 789 |
| Potomac Energy Center, LLC | Potomac Energy Center LLC | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 766 |
| Possum Point | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 642 |
| Bear Garden | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle | – | 628 |
| Remington | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine | – | 614 |
| Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center | Virginia Electric & Power Co | Conventional Steam Coal | – | 610 |
| Smith Mountain | Appalachian Power Co | Conventional Hydroelectric | – | 586 |
| Operating company | Plants | Net summer MW |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | 31 | 16,721 |
| Appalachian Power Co | 8 | 1,202 |
| Doswell Ltd Partnership | 1 | 1,198 |
| Dominion Energy Inc. | 20 | 1,116 |
| Old Dominion Electric Coop | 3 | 956 |
| Tenaska Virginia Partners LP | 1 | 937 |
| Dominion Renewable Energy | 18 | 859 |
| Potomac Energy Center LLC | 1 | 766 |
| AES Distributed Energy | 5 | 675 |
| AES Clean Energy | 4 | 423 |
Operable units only, from EIA's generator inventory as reported for 2026-05. Capacity is net summer rating, which is what a unit can reliably deliver in peak conditions rather than its nameplate figure. Ownership and operatorship can differ; the company shown is the one EIA records as operating the unit.
Market Overview
Residential Revenue
$7.2B
Commercial Revenue
$8.0B
Residential Sales
47.2M MWh
Residential Customers
3.7M
What Virginia's Electricity Data Tells Us
Residential customers in Virginia pay 15.28¢/kWh in 2025, across 3.7M metered households, placing the state 11.7% below the national residential average of 17.30¢/kWh. Commercial rates sit at 9.55¢/kWh while industrial buyers pay 9.45¢/kWh. These sector averages describe recorded revenue per kWh; this dataset alone does not establish why they differ. Annual residential sales total 47.2M MWh on roughly $7.2B in utility revenue. Sales and revenue are reported retail-series measures and should not be treated as a local load forecast.
The two ends of Virginia's market are priced very differently: 28 of 51 for households against 16 for industry. A gap this wide means a single statewide "electricity price" describes almost nothing, and the sector figures above should be read separately. Natural gas carries the majority of Virginia's in-state generation at 57.6%, though not the whole grid: nuclear supplies 26.8% and solar a further 9.6%. It is the leading fuel in 26 states. Renewable fuels (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass) account for 11.2% of Virginia's electricity output. These shares describe in-state generation, not a utility-specific customer bill.
Looking back across EIA records, residential prices in Virginia moved from 11.36¢/kWh in 2016 to 15.28¢/kWh in 2025, a 34.5% shift over that window. States charging a similar rate include Florida, Arizona, Oregon, a useful peer set for a sanity check. Because gas sets the price of the marginal megawatt-hour on a grid built around it, Virginia's residential rate tracks the fuel market with a lag: a gas-price winter shows up on bills months later, and a cheap gas year works its way through the same way. A state average sitting modestly under the national one is the easiest kind to misread, because the spread between utilities inside Virginia can be wider than the gap to the national figure it is being compared against.
-11.7%
Cheaper vs the US residential average
54%
of states have higher rates — Mid-range cost
11%
Low renewable share — below the 25% US mix
3.7M
residential customers served
Energy Generation Mix (2025)
How Virginia generates its electricity, from the EIA generation series for 2025 (separate from the 2025 retail-sales price figures above). Renewable sources account for 11.2% of generation.
- Natural Gas57.6%
- Nuclear26.8%
- Solarrenewable9.6%
- Coal3.4%
- Hydrorenewable1.2%
- Petroleum0.5%
- Other0.4%
- Biomassrenewable0.4%
Residential Price History
Virginia residential average revenue per kWh moved from 11.36¢/kWh in 2016 to 15.28¢/kWh in 2025 (34.5% over the window).
- Virginia residential avg
- 15.28¢/kWh 34.5% since 2016
- 2016 → 2025
- Virginia residential: 2016, 11.4¢
- Virginia residential: 2017, 11.6¢
- Virginia residential: 2018, 11.7¢
- Virginia residential: 2019, 12.1¢
- Virginia residential: 2020, 12¢
- Virginia residential: 2021, 12¢
- Virginia residential: 2022, 13.3¢
- Virginia residential: 2023, 14.3¢
- Virginia residential: 2024, 14.4¢
- Virginia residential: 2025, 15.3¢
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · annual frequency. Virginia full trend →
Virginia Average Price by Sector and Year (¢/kWh)
The chart above tracks households only. In 2025, Virginia households paid 15.28¢/kWh while businesses paid 9.55¢/kWh, a 60.0% residential premium, one of the widest household-versus-business gaps in the country. Every year EIA has published is below, so a single year can be read across all three sectors rather than assembled from three separate EIA queries.
| Year | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15.28¢/kWh | 9.55¢/kWh | 9.45¢/kWh |
| 2024 | 14.41¢/kWh | 8.72¢/kWh | 8.99¢/kWh |
| 2023 | 14.26¢/kWh | 8.95¢/kWh | 8.92¢/kWh |
| 2022 | 13.34¢/kWh | 9.66¢/kWh | 7.99¢/kWh |
| 2021 | 11.96¢/kWh | 7.79¢/kWh | 6.49¢/kWh |
| 2020 | 12.03¢/kWh | 7.63¢/kWh | 6.28¢/kWh |
| 2019 | 12.07¢/kWh | 8.18¢/kWh | 6.85¢/kWh |
| 2018 | 11.73¢/kWh | 8.32¢/kWh | 6.86¢/kWh |
| 2017 | 11.55¢/kWh | 8.01¢/kWh | 6.51¢/kWh |
| 2016 | 11.36¢/kWh | 7.93¢/kWh | 6.56¢/kWh |
Average revenue per kilowatt-hour, U.S. Energy Information Administration annual-frequency retail-sales series. Revenue per kWh is what customers in each sector actually paid on average, not an advertised tariff rate. Years with no EIA figure for a sector show —.
Where Virginia's residential rate sits nationally
2025 average revenue per kWh across every reporting state
15.28¢/kWh Top 48% most affordable More affordable than 54% of 50 other states
all reporting states, equal-width bands
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Source U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail-sales API · 2025 annual frequency
How Virginia compares
Average revenue per kWh, EIA retail-sales API. Pick a benchmark above to compare Virginia against the US average or a peer state.
States with Similar Electricity Prices
Other states led by natural gas
These grids also report natural gas as their largest generation share in the latest EIA mix — a different peer set from the price neighbors above.
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Using Virginia's numbers
With renewables still a small share of generation here, the figures above describe a mix that has further to travel than most. Watch what Virginia builds when its existing thermal capacity retires, because that is the decision the next decade of rates is made of.
- Virginia sits 11.7% below the national average, see exactly where it lands among all 50 states. See the rankings
- Check the multi-year trend before you judge the rate, a low price rising fast can cost more over a decade than a steady one. Virginia price trend
- Compare Virginia side by side with the US average and peer states using the tool above, then estimate your own bill from your monthly kWh. Cost calculator
Figures are EIA state averages by sector, computed as revenue divided by sales, so delivery and taxes are inside them but not broken out. Your actual rate depends on your utility, plan, and usage, see our disclaimer.
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Where Virginia's figures come from
Every price and generation figure on this page is drawn from the EIA series below, and from nothing else.
Utilities serving Virginia
The 21 utilities that reported bundled residential service in Virginia to EIA Form 861 (2024), largest first. Entity prices below are Form 861 averages for that release, not the same survey as the 2025 retail-sales statewide average above, and not a household tariff. What an individual household pays depends on which of these serves its address.
| Utility | Ownership | Customers | Avg ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | Investor Owned | 2.4M | 14.09¢ |
| Appalachian Power Co | Investor Owned | 465.3K | 17.02¢ |
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | Cooperative | 169.5K | 14.89¢ |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | Cooperative | 167.3K | 11.57¢ |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | Cooperative | 85.3K | 13.81¢ |
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 56.8K | 15.48¢ |
| City of Danville - (VA) | Municipal | 37.8K | 15.01¢ |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | Cooperative | 34.9K | 16.14¢ |
| A & N Electric Coop | Cooperative | 33.1K | 13.02¢ |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | Cooperative | 30.0K | 14.50¢ |
| Kentucky Utilities Co | Investor Owned | 22.7K | 14.28¢ |
| City of Harrisonburg - (VA) | Municipal | 18.1K | 11.36¢ |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 18.0K | 16.12¢ |
| City of Manassas - (VA) | Municipal | 13.9K | 11.63¢ |
| Bristol Virginia Utilities | Municipal | 13.6K | 10.99¢ |
Showing the 15 largest of 21 reporting utilities. The 4 serving 100.0K+ residential customers link to a full profile. Presence in EIA Form 861 is not evidence that a utility is available at a given address or that a customer may choose it.
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Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Statewide prices use the EIA retail-sales annual series (2025). Generation mix uses a separate EIA generation series (2025). Utility rows use Form EIA-861 (2024) and are not averaged into the statewide retail-sales figure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.