Virginia electricity and natural gas rates
Electricity
17.61¢
per kWh
Natural gas
$2.28
per therm
Residential sector, US Energy Information Administration, 2026-05. Updated monthly.
How Virginia compares
At 17.61¢ per kWh, Virginia is below the national average of 19.41¢, making it the 31st cheapest of the 51 states we track.
What a typical Virginia household uses
Electricity a month
1,063 kWh
Bill a month
$171
Households in Virginia use 23% more electricity than the national average and pay 15% more than average. Cheap power absorbs most of that: the meter turns faster here, but at 17.61¢ each unit costs less than it does nationally. The climate is fairly balanced — 4,000 heating degree days against 1,400 cooling ones — so neither season dominates the bill.
Averaged over twelve months across 3,717,653 residential accounts in Virginia. Source: EIA.
What this means for heating
Virginia sees around 85 freezing nights a year. Whether a heat pump beats a furnace here depends on the gap between those two prices above — not on the equipment.
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