Rappahannock Electric Cooperative Rates and Average Bill

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative reported 172,883 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,195 kWh a month on average at 15.49 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 18 Virginia utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative ranks 13 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Rappahannock Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 22 counties in Virginia. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative reported an average of 220 minutes without power per customer and 2.02 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 109 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative had about 92 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Virginia figure across its utilities was 284 minutes. One interruption lasting 109 minutes and 2.02 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 220 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Rappahannock Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 48 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 3,964 residential net-metered systems on the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 31.0 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Rappahannock Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Virginia.

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative ranks 3rd of the 17 utilities that report homes in Virginia, with about 4.7% of the state's homes. Its price of 15.49 cents per kWh is 1.05 cents above the median of 8 other cooperatives in Virginia (14.45 cents). Over a year, the typical Rappahannock Electric Cooperative bill runs about $266 above the state average, with monthly use 128 kWh higher. Rappahannock Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 22 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 3,964 of its residential customers use net metering, or 22.9 per 1,000 homes, against 20.7 for Virginia as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Virginia with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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