Virginia electricity prices - 17.22¢/kWh (June 2026)

Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story

• Residential electricity in Virginia costs 17.22¢/kWh as of June 2026 - +13.1% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
• The average Virginia home used 1,076 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $185.25 (+6.1% vs a year earlier).
• Virginia has the 22nd-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 6% below the U.S. average of 18.34¢/kWh.

Price by sector

Data centers & Virginia's electric bills

Virginia regulators approved Dominion Energy rate increases in November 2025 that raise a typical residential bill by $11.24 per month in 2026 and $2.36 more in 2027, while creating a new GS-5 rate class that requires customers demanding 25 MW or more to pay minimum shares of their contracted demand starting January 1, 2027. The state's data-center sales-tax exemption delivered a reported tax benefit of about $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025. A peer-reviewed 2026 study lists Virginia among the regions most affected by projected data-center-driven electricity price increases through 2030.

• 2025-11-25 - On November 25, 2025, the Virginia State Corporation Commission approved Dominion Energy base rate revenue increases of $565.7 million for 2026 and $209.9 million for 2027, which raise a typical residential customer's bill by $11.24 per month in 2026 and an additional $2.36 per month in 2027 (case PUR-2025-00058). Source: Virginia State Corporation Commission
• 2025-11-25 - Effective January 1, 2027, Dominion customers demanding 25 megawatts or more will be served under a new GS-5 rate class and must pay a minimum of 85% of contracted distribution and transmission demand and 60% of generation demand (SCC case PUR-2025-00058). Source: Virginia State Corporation Commission
• 2026-01-02 - A Virginia Department of Taxation report dated January 2, 2026 put the aggregate reported tax benefit of the data-center retail sales and use tax exemption at approximately $1.9 billion in fiscal year 2025, on roughly $33.2 billion of exempt equipment and software investment. Source: Virginia Department of Taxation (biennial report to the General Assembly)
• 2026-05-12 - A study by researchers at North Carolina State University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Toronto, published May 12, 2026 in Environmental Research Letters, projects that data-center and cryptocurrency-mining demand could raise U.S. electricity prices by 6%-29% on average by 2030 and by up to 57% in the hardest-hit areas, with Virginia among the most affected regions. Source: NC State University News

Each item above is dated and linked to its primary source; entries are reviewed quarterly. See the large-load tariff tracker and the who-paid-what ledger for the cross-state picture.

Virginia is served by the PJM grid region, where the price of guaranteed generating capacity is set in an annual auction - see PJM capacity auction prices for how that reaches retail bills.

Water

Electricity delivered in Virginia carries 1.96 liters of water per kilowatt-hour consumed at the power plants supplying it (1.30 L/kWh excluding hydropower reservoir evaporation), against a national average of 4.28. That is below the national figure, and it is a property of the grid here rather than of any one building: a data center drawing 100 GWh a year in Virginia accounts for about 51.9 million gallons of power-plant water before it cools anything. All states ranked →

A data center's water use is roughly twelve times larger once the water evaporated at its power plants is counted. The Colorado River arithmetic → · how the water numbers work →

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