Bristol Virginia Utilities Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Bristol Virginia Utilities is a municipally owned electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 2248. In 2024 it served 13,633 bundled residential customers in Virginia, and its average realised residential price was 10.99 cents per kWh: $22 million of residential revenue divided by 195,777 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Bristol Virginia Utilities' 2024 average prices were 11.55 cents for commercial customers (2,849 accounts) and 6.62 cents for industrial customers (3 accounts). Industrial customers paid 4.37 cents less per kWh than households, a 40% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Virginia, Bristol Virginia Utilities ranked number 15 of 19 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (13,633) and accounted for 0.43% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 14.41 cents per kWh, so Bristol Virginia Utilities' customers paid 3.42 cents below the Virginia average (-23.7%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Virginia is 17.22 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.

EIA's service-territory file places Bristol Virginia Utilities in 3 Virginia counties: Bristol City, Scott, and Washington. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region, and reported distribution and bundled as its activities. Balancing authority code: TVA.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 11.62 cents per kWh for Bristol Virginia Utilities in Virginia across 13,648 residential customers, 0.63 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in Virginia by service-territory centroid are Powell Valley Electric Coop (53.6 miles away, 11.49 cents), Appalachian Power Co (98.6 miles away, 17.02 cents), and Virginia Tech Electric Service (107.6 miles away, 17.18 cents). Other Virginia utilities of similar size include City of Manassas (VA) (13,947 residential accounts served, 11.63 cents) and City of Salem (VA) (11,298 residential accounts served, 15.11 cents).