Monongahela Power Co electricity rates

It serves 334,588 residential customers, making it one of the larger utilities in West Virginia. At 13.97¢ per kilowatt-hour it is one of the cheaper places to buy electricity in West Virginia, 16.8% under the statewide average of 16.80¢.

Consumption is close to the national norm at 892 kilowatt-hours a month against 871, so the rate translates fairly directly into the bill.

A shareholder-owned company whose rates are set by the state regulator, including an approved return on the capital it has invested. 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 Monongahela Power Co customer went 852 minutes without electricity across 2.87 interruptions. The median across the 941 utilities that report this is 185 minutes.

That is far worse than typical, and figures at this level almost always reflect a major storm season rather than everyday performance. A single hurricane or ice storm can dominate the annual number.

834 residential customers had net-metered solar in 2024, totalling 6.89 megawatts. That works out to 2.5 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.