Virginia Tech Electric Service electricity rates

It is a smaller system, serving 5,660 residential customers, which means its fixed costs are spread across a narrow base. At 17.18¢ per kilowatt-hour it tracks the Virginia average of 17.61¢ closely, which is what you would expect from a utility large enough to shape that average itself.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 787 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

Operated by the state itself, with rates set through a public body rather than a commission proceeding. 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.

In 2024 the average Virginia Tech Electric Service customer went 9 minutes without electricity across 0.12 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is markedly better than typical. Short outage durations usually mean an underground or heavily automated network, and they are expensive to achieve, which is part of why reliable systems often carry higher delivery charges.

93 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 0.53 megawatts. That works out to 16.4 installations per thousand customers, against a median of 8 across the utilities reporting it.

Adoption is above the national median, which generally tracks the retail rate more closely than it tracks sunshine. What exports are actually worth.