Dominion Energy Virginia (Virginia Electric and Power) commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 20259.84¢per kWh, customers on bundled service
• vs Virginia average−1.1%state commercial average 9.95¢
• Commercial customers271,320largest of 19 in Virginia
• Average use18,466 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$1,818a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+25%from 7.86¢ per kWh
• Outages144 mina year per customer · US average 124

Dominion Energy Virginia (Virginia Electric and Power) is an investor-owned utility serving 104 counties in Virginia. Among the 19 Virginia utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the largest, with about 61% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Virginia Electric & Power Co.

Dominion Energy Virginia commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Dominion Energy Virginia billed its commercial customers on bundled service an average of 7.86¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 9.84¢, so it rose 25% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Virginia rose 21% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 11%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Dominion Energy Virginia customers who buy their energy from a supplier

In 2025, 7% of the commercial kWh Dominion Energy Virginia delivered went to customers buying their energy from a competitive supplier, and 0% of its commercial customers did so. The share by kWh is the larger because the businesses that shop tend to be the larger ones. Dominion Energy Virginia bills those customers for delivery only, at an average of 0.59¢ per kWh, which is the part of a bill that no supplier can change.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Dominion Energy Virginia

In 2025 the average commercial price at Dominion Energy Virginia was 35% below the residential figure and 15% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

The customers who buy their energy from a supplier are counted separately, and Dominion Energy Virginia bills them for delivery alone:

How Dominion Energy Virginia’s commercial rates are set

Dominion Energy Virginia is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the Virginia State Corporation Commission and published in a tariff, which is a public document. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. What a business in Virginia can and cannot choose is on the Virginia page.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Dominion Energy Virginia

EIA counts 267,902 commercial meters at Dominion Energy Virginia in 2025, and 267,150 of them (more than 99%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 472 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 280 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At Dominion Energy Virginia, 6,528 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 2.4% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Dominion Energy Virginia reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing, variable peak pricing and critical peak pricing.

EIA records 1,071 commercial net-metered generating systems at Dominion Energy Virginia in 2025, with 111 MW of capacity between them: about 3.9 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Dominion Energy Virginia’s electric service?

Dominion Energy Virginia customers went without power for an average of 144 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 1.32 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 307 minutes. This utility reports on a different measurement standard, so the comparison is only approximate. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Dominion Energy Virginia serves

EIA records Dominion Energy Virginia serving customers in 104 Virginia counties: Accomack, Albemarle, Alexandria City, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bedford City, Botetourt, Bristol City, Brunswick, Buchanan, Buckingham, Buena Vista City, and 86 more. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists PJM as its balancing authority. PJM is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Virginia

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Virginia page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Appalachian Power (13.39¢)
• Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative (12.75¢)
• NOVEC (9.54¢)
• Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (12.17¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Dominion Energy Virginia’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Virginia page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.
• Bundled and delivery-only are different customers. The two prices describe different parts of the bill and are never added together or averaged.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Dominion Energy Virginia commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Dominion Energy Virginia

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Dominion Energy Virginia?

Dominion Energy Virginia billed its commercial customers on bundled service in Virginia an average of 9.84¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 1.1% below the Virginia commercial average of 9.95¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Dominion Energy Virginia?

About $1,818 a month in 2025, on average use of about 18,466 kWh a month. That is Dominion Energy Virginia’s commercial revenue divided by its 271,163 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Dominion Energy Virginia’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Dominion Energy Virginia billed commercial customers rose 25% between 2015 and 2025, from 7.86¢ to 9.84¢ per kWh. The Virginia commercial average rose 21% over the same period.

How reliable is Dominion Energy Virginia’s electric service?

Dominion Energy Virginia customers averaged 144 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Dominion Energy Virginia use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 267,150 advanced (AMI) meters among Dominion Energy Virginia’s 267,902 commercial meters in 2025, which is more than 99%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Dominion Energy Virginia?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Dominion Energy Virginia’s tariff.