Wheeling Power Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

Wheeling Power reported 34,202 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 940 kWh a month on average at 17.61 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 4 West Virginia utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Wheeling Power ranks 4 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 Wheeling Power has distribution equipment. That covers 4 counties in West 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, Wheeling Power reported an average of 426 minutes without power per customer and 1.97 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 216 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Wheeling Power had about 298 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The West Virginia figure across its utilities was 498 minutes. One interruption lasting 216 minutes and 1.97 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 426 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. Wheeling Power reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 2,261 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 111 residential net-metered systems on the Wheeling Power grid in 2025, with 1.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In West Virginia, that review is done by the West Virginia Public Service Commission.

Wheeling Power is an investor-owned utility based in West Virginia.

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

West Virginia has 3 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Wheeling Power is 2nd by size and serves about 3.9% of the state's homes. West Virginia has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Wheeling Power with its type, so the state average of 15.39 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. The typical Wheeling Power bill of $165.54 a month is within about $12 a year of the West Virginia average, so a household here pays close to what a typical household in the state pays. Wheeling Power lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 111 of its residential customers use net metering, or 3.2 per 1,000 homes, against 5.9 for West 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 West Virginia with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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