Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 18,180 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 14.87¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Pennsylvania, 31% under the statewide average of 21.55¢.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 940 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

Owned by the customers it serves, with directors elected by members. Co-ops are frequently outside state rate regulation. That matters because a bill is not only the cost of generating electricity: it also carries the cost of the network, and who owns that network changes how it is paid for.

83 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.89 megawatts. That works out to 4.6 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is below the national median. A low retail rate reduces what solar displaces, and export compensation set at avoided cost rather than the retail rate reduces it further. What exports are actually worth.