Central Virginia Electric Coop Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Central Virginia Electric Coop is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 3291. In 2024 it served 34,893 bundled residential customers in Virginia, and its average realised residential price was 16.14 cents per kWh: $80 million of residential revenue divided by 495,787 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Central Virginia Electric Coop's 2024 average prices were 14.06 cents for commercial customers (4,652 accounts) and 9.63 cents for industrial customers (28 accounts). Industrial customers paid 6.51 cents less per kWh than households, a 40% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Virginia, Central Virginia Electric Coop ranked number 8 of 19 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (34,893) and accounted for 1.10% 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 Central Virginia Electric Coop's customers paid 1.73 cents above the Virginia average (+12.0%). 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 Central Virginia Electric Coop in 14 Virginia counties: Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson, and 2 more. On the grid side it operates in the SERC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported distribution as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 16.16 cents per kWh for Central Virginia Electric Coop in Virginia across 35,353 residential customers, 0.02 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 Southside Electric Coop, Inc (43.2 miles away, 15.48 cents), Virginia Electric & Power Co (48.9 miles away, 14.09 cents), Rappahannock Electric Coop (52.3 miles away, 14.89 cents), City of Harrisonburg (VA) (55.3 miles away, 11.36 cents), and Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop (56.7 miles away, 13.81 cents).