West Virginia electricity prices - 15.78¢/kWh (July 2026)
Residential price, average bill, and the data-center story
- Residential electricity in West Virginia costs 15.78¢/kWh as of - +2.3% year over year, per U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
- The average West Virginia home used 1,155 kWh that month and paid an average bill of $182.32 (−8.2% vs a year earlier).
- West Virginia has the 31st-highest residential electricity price of the 50 states and DC - 14% below the U.S. average of 18.31¢/kWh.
Price by sector
| Sector | ¢/kWh (July 2026) | 1-yr change |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 15.78¢ | +2.3% |
| Commercial | 11.44¢ | +2.2% |
| Industrial | 8.40¢ | +5.3% |
West 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 West 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 West 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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