Dominion Energy Virginia: price per kWh, bills and the 2026 rise

Three prices for three periods

Dominion Energy Virginia, the operating name of Virginia Electric and Power Company and the largest utility in the state, served 2,408,901¹ residential customers in 2025. Which price applies depends on the period:

• 2025, full year: 15.20¢ per kWh (EIA-861, final). That was 0.5% below the Virginia average and 14.5% below the national average for investor-owned utilities. It ranked 9th highest of the 17 Virginia utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, and 85th highest of 177¹ among large utilities nationally.
• Last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026): 17.27¢ per kWh (EIA-861M; the 2026 months are preliminary), against 16.64¢ per kWh for all Virginia utilities together.
• August 2026 alone: 18.82¢ per kWh, +17.2%² on August 2025. The statewide average that month was 17.64¢ per kWh³.

Each figure is average revenue per kWh: what Dominion billed its residential customers in total, divided by the kWh they used. It folds the basic customer charge, the fuel factor and the riders into one number, so it is higher than the energy charge printed in the tariff and lower than what a small user pays per kWh. It covers bundled service, supply and delivery together; EIA counted 0¹ Virginia homes buying from a competitive supplier in 2025, so in practice every Dominion household is in this average.

Cheaper than Appalachian Power in 2025, dearer since

In 2025 Dominion's homes paid less per kWh than those of Appalachian Power (17.16¢ per kWh) and Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (15.49¢ per kWh), and more than NOVEC (12.60¢ per kWh¹). The order changed within a year. Over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026), Dominion's average of 17.27¢ per kWh was above Appalachian Power's 16.38¢ per kWh and Rappahannock's 15.92¢ per kWh². NOVEC is not in EIA's monthly sample, so it has no 12-month figure.

The latest month shows the gap widening. In August 2026, Dominion's average was 18.82¢ per kWh (+17.2% against a year earlier), Rappahannock's 16.69¢ per kWh (+5.3%) and Appalachian Power's 15.63¢ per kWh (−10.2%²). Statewide the residential average rose 11.3%³ over the same comparison. Because Dominion holds 66.5%¹ of Virginia's residential customers, its prices largely set the state's trend. Single-month utility figures are preliminary and can be revised when EIA publishes the final annual data.

Dominion Energy VirginiaVirginia average, all providers

Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility; EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state. Residential revenue divided by kWh in each month, as reported to EIA's monthly survey (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary).

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Month	Dominion Energy Virginia (¢/kWh)	kWh per customer	Bill per customer
January 2025	13.60¢	1,562	$212.40
February 2025	13.90¢	1,156	$160.65
March 2025	14.45¢	889	$128.54
April 2025	14.71¢	754	$110.93
May 2025	14.79¢	787	$116.35
June 2025	14.91¢	1,174	$175.00
July 2025	15.94¢	1,381	$220.18
August 2025	16.06¢	1,019	$163.66
September 2025	16.98¢	830	$140.94
October 2025	16.60¢	710	$117.89
November 2025	16.00¢	859	$137.40
December 2025	15.58¢	1,337	$208.34
January 2026	16.54¢	1,481	$244.89
February 2026	16.68¢	1,253	$208.90
March 2026	17.72¢	856	$151.74
April 2026	17.55¢	746	$130.97
May 2026	17.67¢	807	$142.55
June 2026	18.34¢	1,070	$196.28
July 2026	18.71¢	1,290	$241.36
August 2026	18.82¢	1,236	$232.64

What the commission approved for 2026 and 2027

Dominion's base rates in Virginia are set by the Virginia State Corporation Commission in a biennial review. Its final order in the 2025 review, issued November 25, 2025, approved a base rate increase in two steps, a larger one for 2026 and a smaller one for 2027, less than the company had requested. The fuel factor, which passes fuel and purchased-power costs through to bills, is decided in a separate annual case, so the price customers pay can move between rate cases too.

The annual data had already turned upward before the order: Dominion's residential average rose from 14.09¢ per kWh⁴ in 2024 to 15.20¢ per kWh in 2025 (+7.9%¹). The guide to rate cases explains how such decisions reach a bill.

Bills peak in January

Dominion's average residential bill was $157.75 a month in 2025, up from $141.63 in 2024 (+11.4%). The bill rose faster than the price because use per home also went up, from 1,005 kWh⁴ to 1,038 kWh¹ a month. Over the last 12 months the computed average reached $179.55 on 1,040 kWh².

The season matters more than either annual figure. In EIA's monthly sample for September 2025 to August 2026, use per Dominion home peaked in January 2026 at 1,481 kWh, with an average bill of $244.89, and was lowest in October 2025 at 710 kWh and $117.89².

830Sep

710Oct

859Nov

1,337Dec

1,481Jan

1,253Feb

856Mar

746Apr

807May

1,070Jun

1,290Jul

1,236Aug

Source: EIA-861M monthly sales and revenue by utility. kWh per residential customer in each month (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary). The table adds the average bill and price for the month.

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Month	kWh per customer	Bill per customer	¢/kWh
September 2025	830	$140.94	16.98¢
October 2025	710	$117.89	16.60¢
November 2025	859	$137.40	16.00¢
December 2025	1,337	$208.34	15.58¢
January 2026	1,481	$244.89	16.54¢
February 2026	1,253	$208.90	16.68¢
March 2026	856	$151.74	17.72¢
April 2026	746	$130.97	17.55¢
May 2026	807	$142.55	17.67¢
June 2026	1,070	$196.28	18.34¢
July 2026	1,290	$241.36	18.71¢
August 2026	1,236	$232.64	18.82¢

One company, two states, two price levels

Virginia Electric and Power Company also serves northeastern North Carolina as Dominion Energy North Carolina, where rates are set by the North Carolina Utilities Commission instead of Virginia's commission. The two jurisdictions moved in opposite directions from 2024 to 2025: the North Carolina residential average fell 8.5% to 12.74¢ per kWh, while Virginia's rose to 15.20¢ per kWh¹. Over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026) the North Carolina average was 13.48¢ per kWh, against 17.27¢ per kWh² in Virginia.

North Carolina customers use more electricity, 1,285 kWh a month in 2025 against 1,038 kWh in Virginia, so their average bill ($163.67) was higher despite the lower price. The parent company's third utility, Dominion Energy South Carolina, averaged 16.41¢ per kWh¹; the Dominion Energy page compares all three.

Dominion Energy North Carolina (NC)12.74¢

Dominion Energy Virginia (VA)15.20¢

Dominion Energy South Carolina (SC)16.41¢

Source: EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. EIA-861 2025 final. Average revenue per kWh is all charges divided by kWh; it is not a tariff rate.

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Utility	average residential price (bundled customers)
Dominion Energy North Carolina (NC)	12.74¢
Dominion Energy Virginia (VA)	15.20¢
Dominion Energy South Carolina (SC)	16.41¢

Commercial accounts with very large bills

Dominion had 271,163 commercial accounts in 2025. They paid an average of 9.84¢ per kWh, below the residential 15.20¢ per kWh, but their average bill was $1,817.86 a month, above the Virginia average commercial bill of $1,608.32, which itself was the 2nd highest⁵ among the states. Its 990 industrial accounts paid 8.53¢ per kWh, and across all customer classes the average was 11.48¢ per kWh¹.

The commission's November 2025 order also created a separate rate class for customers that need 25 megawatts or more, starting January 1, 2027, with long-term minimum-demand commitments. EIA's data do not break commercial customers down by type, so they cannot show how much of Dominion's commercial load such customers account for.

Meters, time-of-use, rooftop solar and outages

Advanced meters made up 99.8% of Dominion's residential meters in 2025, so almost every home could be billed by time of day. Few are: 20,285 residential customers, 0.8% of the total, were enrolled in time-of-use pricing. Rooftop solar is more common. Dominion reported 54,593 net-metered residential installations (22.7 per 1,000 customers) with 392.3 megawatts⁶ of capacity. The time-of-use guide explains when a time-based rate lowers a bill.

Outage time was below the state's: Dominion customers averaged 307 minutes without power in 2025 including major events, fewer than the Virginia average of 462 minutes, and 144 minutes excluding them, with 1.78⁷ interruptions per customer. Dominion reports these under another method (not IEEE 1366), so its figures are not strictly comparable with utilities that use IEEE 1366.

Where Dominion serves

EIA's service-territory records place Dominion in 103 Virginia counties and independent cities. It is the only distribution utility reporting customers in 33 of them; in the other 70⁸, at least one other utility also reports customers, and only Dominion's own service map settles a particular address. For the other utilities and the statewide picture, see electricity in Virginia.

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Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 103 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.