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Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative Rates and Bills Guide

Average rate and bill, service area, reliability and rate options for this utility, taken from its 2025 filing with the EIA.

Reviewed Data: EIA Form EIA-861, released October 7, 2026

Independent profile. Kilowatt Atlas is not affiliated with Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative, does not use its logo or branding and cannot take payments, start service or look up accounts. Figures come from public federal data for 2025.

Residential customers

87 thousand

86,656 homes

Average price

14.49 cents

Virginia average 15.28

Average bill

$173.90

Per month at 1,200 kWh

Price rank

10 of 18

Lowest to highest in Virginia

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative rates and average bill

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative reported 86,656 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,200 kWh a month on average at 14.49 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, Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative ranks 10 from the lowest price.

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative compared with Virginia and the United States
AverageCents per kWhkWh per monthMonthly bill
Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative14.491,200$173.90
Virginia (all utilities)15.281,067$163.05
United States17.23874$150.68

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.

Service area

EIA lists the counties where Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 12 counties in Virginia. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

Virginia (12 counties)

Augusta, Clarke, Frederick, Greene, Highland, Nelson, Page, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Warren, Winchester City

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Reliability

For 2025, Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 258 minutes without power per customer and 2.34 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 110 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative had about 131 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Virginia figure across its utilities was 284 minutes. One interruption lasting 110 minutes and 2.34 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 258 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.

Rate options and rooftop solar

  • Time-of-use pricing. Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
  • Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 1,484 residential net-metered systems on the Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 12.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Who owns and regulates it

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

For questions about state consumer protections, see the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Virginia.

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

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative compared with Virginia

Virginia has 17 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative is 5th by size and serves about 2.4% of the state's homes. Its price of 14.49 cents per kWh is 0.44 cents below the median of 8 other cooperatives in Virginia (14.94 cents). Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 12 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 1,484 of its residential customers use net metering, or 17.1 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.

Other Virginia utilities

Utilities in Virginia close in size to Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative
UtilityTypeHomesCents per kWh
Shenandoah Valley Electric CooperativeCooperative86,65614.49
Rappahannock Electric CooperativeCooperative172,88315.49
Northern Virginia Electric CooperativeCooperative169,02712.60
Southside Electric CooperativeCooperative57,30515.48
City of DanvilleMunicipal38,22615.81
Central Virginia Electric CooperativeCooperative35,35316.16

See every one on the electric companies in Virginia page.

Official site and where to get help

Kilowatt Atlas is not Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative and does not take payments, start service or manage accounts. To pay a bill, report an outage or start service, use the website, app or phone number printed on your bill. Be careful with search ads and lookalike sites that offer to pay your bill for a fee.

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative questions

What is the average residential electric rate for Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative?

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative residential customers on bundled service paid an average of 14.49 cents per kWh in 2025, with average use of 1,200 kWh a month and an average bill of $173.90 (EIA Form EIA-861). The Virginia average was 15.28 cents.

How many customers does Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative have?

EIA reports about 86,656 residential customers for Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative in 2025.

Who regulates Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative?

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return. See the regulator for Virginia on the Virginia state page.

How reliable is Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative?

For 2025, Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative reported an average of 258 minutes of outage per customer and 2.34 interruptions per customer, excluding major event days (IEEE 1366). Utilities measure outages in slightly different ways, so compare with care.

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