Mon Power electric rates, bills and outages

What Mon Power customers paid per kWh

Monongahela Power Company, known as Mon Power and owned by FirstEnergy, delivered and sold electricity to 334,336 residential customers in 2025, 39.0% of West Virginia's homes. Those customers paid an average of 14.31¢ per kWh, the 2nd lowest of the 4 West Virginia utilities with 10,000 or more residential customers, 19.5% below the national average for investor-owned utilities and 77th lowest of 177¹ among the large utilities EIA reports nationally.

That figure is average revenue per kWh: everything residential customers paid in the year, divided by the kilowatt-hours they used. It folds in the monthly customer charge, the fuel and purchased-power recovery and the riders, but not most taxes, so it is neither the energy charge in the tariff nor the exact price any one home paid.

EIA also samples Mon Power every month. Over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026, its residential average was 14.50¢ per kWh. In August 2026³ alone it was 14.87¢ per kWh, +4.4%² against the same month a year earlier; monthly figures for 2026 are preliminary, and a month's average moves with the season, because fixed charges are spread over more kWh in a high-use month.

Mon PowerWest Virginia 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	Mon Power (¢/kWh)	kWh per customer	Bill per customer
January 2025	14.08¢	1,404	$197.67
February 2025	14.28¢	1,061	$151.48
March 2025	14.42¢	852	$122.91
April 2025	14.57¢	709	$103.38
May 2025	14.64¢	644	$94.22
June 2025	14.20¢	910	$129.19
July 2025	14.15¢	1,166	$164.95
August 2025	14.25¢	956	$136.16
September 2025	14.72¢	692	$101.93
October 2025	14.58¢	685	$99.97
November 2025	14.23¢	908	$129.25
December 2025	14.12¢	1,194	$168.49
January 2026	14.38¢	1,314	$188.96
February 2026	14.41¢	1,122	$161.70
March 2026	14.66¢	820	$120.16
April 2026	14.86¢	648	$96.21
May 2026	14.64¢	702	$102.71
June 2026	14.59¢	822	$119.96
July 2026	14.39¢	1,075	$154.79
August 2026	14.87¢	949	$141.13

Rate increases: what the data show

From 2024 to 2025, Mon Power's residential average rose 2.4%, from 13.97¢ per kWh⁴ to 14.31¢ per kWh¹. The 12-month figure to August 2026 sits above the 2025 average, and the latest month above the same month of 2025, so the direction in EIA's data is still up.

Mon Power's rates, like those of its sister utility Potomac Edison, are set by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia. Their 2023 base rate case was a joint one: in March 2024 the commission approved a settlement that cut in half the base rate increase they had requested in May 2023; the same settlement set a lower credit for the output of new rooftop-solar customers from January 2025. The commission's case search lists the current filings. The guide to rate cases explains how such orders reach a bill.

A bill that rose faster than the price

The average bill went from $124.56 in 2024 to $133.32 in 2025, +7.0%, nearly three times the change in the price. The difference is use: the average home took 892 kWh⁴ a month in 2024 and 932 kWh¹ in 2025. Over the last 12 months use eased to 911 kWh and the computed bill to $132.12², even though the price per kWh was higher.

Use, more than price, sets Mon Power's bill apart from its neighbors'. In 2025, Potomac Edison's homes paid less per kWh (13.10¢ per kWh) but used 1,256 kWh a month, for a bill of $164.57. Appalachian Power's homes used 1,157 kWh at 16.97¢ per kWh, for $196.40¹. The state's average bill, all providers, was $165.13⁵.

Mon Power (WV)$133.32

Potomac Edison (WV)$164.57

Appalachian Power (WV)$196.40

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 monthly residential bill
Mon Power (WV)	$133.32
Potomac Edison (WV)	$164.57
Appalachian Power (WV)	$196.40

Customers cannot pick among them. The address decides: Mon Power reports customers in 34 counties, and in 19⁶ of them at least one other utility also does, so only the utility's own service map settles which company serves a given street.

Winter bills, spring lows

Winter sets the size of the Mon Power bill. In EIA's monthly data for the last 12 months, the average home used 1,314 kWh in January 2026, for a bill of $188.96, and 648 kWh in April 2026, for $96.21². A household budgeting by the annual average will meet its largest bills in winter.

692Sep

685Oct

908Nov

1,194Dec

1,314Jan

1,122Feb

820Mar

648Apr

702May

822Jun

1,075Jul

949Aug

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	692	$101.93	14.72¢
October 2025	685	$99.97	14.58¢
November 2025	908	$129.25	14.23¢
December 2025	1,194	$168.49	14.12¢
January 2026	1,314	$188.96	14.38¢
February 2026	1,122	$161.70	14.41¢
March 2026	820	$120.16	14.66¢
April 2026	648	$96.21	14.86¢
May 2026	702	$102.71	14.64¢
June 2026	822	$119.96	14.59¢
July 2026	1,075	$154.79	14.39¢
August 2026	949	$141.13	14.87¢

More outage time than the state average

West Virginia ranked the highest among the states in 2025 for minutes without power per customer, at 1,013 minutes including major storms. Mon Power's customers averaged 1,250 minutes, more than the West Virginia average of 1,013 minutes, with 3.72 interruptions per customer against 3.08 statewide. Excluding major event days (days whose outage totals pass the IEEE 1366 statistical threshold, usually big storms), the figure was 553 minutes, against 498 minutes⁷ for the state.

Potomac Edison, under the same owner and party to the same 2023 rate case, reported 440 minutes (249 minutes excluding major events); Appalachian Power 1,035 minutes⁷. All figures follow IEEE 1366. The power outages ranking compares the states.

Potomac Edison (WV)440

Appalachian Power (WV)1,035

Mon Power (WV)1,250

Source: EIA-861 2025, reliability. 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	outage minutes per customer (all events)
Potomac Edison (WV)	440
Appalachian Power (WV)	1,035
Mon Power (WV)	1,250

Two FirstEnergy sisters in one state

Mon Power and Potomac Edison share an owner and, in West Virginia, a commission and a rate case, yet their customers' numbers differ on almost every line. Potomac Edison serves 8 counties in the Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands and also Maryland; Mon Power's 34⁶ counties reach from Hancock County in the Northern Panhandle to Greenbrier County in the southeast.

Potomac Edison had the lowest 2025 average of the 8 large FirstEnergy utilities in all its states; the highest was FirstEnergy Pennsylvania, at 18.77¢ per kWh¹.

No smart meters in EIA's data, little rooftop solar

In EIA's 2025 meter data, Mon Power reported 0.0% of its residential meters as advanced (AMI) meters, as did Potomac Edison (0.0%), while Appalachian Power reported 100.0%⁸. Pricing that varies by time of day generally needs meters that record use hour by hour.

Rooftop solar is uncommon: 1,090 residential net-metered installations in 2025, 3.3 per 1,000 customers, with 9.3 megawatts⁸ of capacity. The 2024 settlement described above set a lower credit for customers joining net metering from January 2025.

Business and industrial customers

Mon Power's 56,676 commercial accounts paid 10.71¢ per kWh on average in 2025, well below the residential average, and its 6,350 industrial accounts 7.93¢ per kWh, with an average monthly bill of $5,813.60. For all 397,362 customers combined the figure was 10.55¢ per kWh¹.

Counties served and help paying

Mon Power's territory covers all or part of 34 counties, among them Barbour County, Braxton County, Brooke County, Calhoun County, Clay County, Doddridge County, Gilmer County, Grant County, Greenbrier County, Hancock County, Harrison County, Jackson County and 22 others. In 15⁶ of them no other distribution utility reports customers.

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Source: EIA-861 2025, service territory; Census Bureau, Cartographic boundary file, counties. EIA-861 2025 service territory: 34 counties. Counts whole counties even where the utility serves only part of one; check the utility's own service-area map for an address.

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County	Other utilities reporting service
Barbour County	Harrison Rural Electric Association, Philippi Municipal Electric
Braxton County	none
Brooke County	Wheeling Power Co
Calhoun County	none
Clay County	Appalachian Power, Black Diamond Power Co
Doddridge County	Harrison Rural Electric Association
Gilmer County	none
Grant County	Potomac Edison
Greenbrier County	Appalachian Power
Hancock County	none
Harrison County	Harrison Rural Electric Association
Jackson County	Appalachian Power
Lewis County	Harrison Rural Electric Association
Marion County	Harrison Rural Electric Association
Mineral County	Potomac Edison
Monongalia County	none
Monroe County	Appalachian Power, Craig-Botetourt Electric Cooperative
Nicholas County	Appalachian Power
Pendleton County	Potomac Edison
Pleasants County	none
Pocahontas County	none
Preston County	none
Randolph County	none
Ritchie County	none
Roane County	Appalachian Power
Summers County	Appalachian Power
Taylor County	Harrison Rural Electric Association
Tucker County	none
Tyler County	none
Upshur County	Harrison Rural Electric Association
Webster County	none
Wetzel County	Wheeling Power Co, City of New Martinsville
Wirt County	none
Wood County	none

Households that struggle with winter bills can apply for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program through the state; West Virginia's federal LIHEAP allocation was $35.2 million¹⁰ for fiscal year 2026. For the state as a whole, see electricity in West Virginia.