City of Danville electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 37,781 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 15.01¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in Virginia, 14.8% under the statewide average of 17.61¢.

Its customers use more electricity than the national norm, 994 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, which amplifies whatever the rate does.

Owned by the city it serves and governed by a local board rather than the state commission. No shareholder return is built into the rate. 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.

City of Danville offers time-of-use pricing to residential customers. 5 households were enrolled, about 0.1% of its residential base.

These plans are opt-in almost everywhere. They reward households that can move laundry, dishwashing, water heating or electric vehicle charging out of the late-afternoon peak, and they cost more than the standard rate for households that cannot. How to tell which group you are in.

220 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 1.65 megawatts. That works out to 5.8 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.