Mon Power (Monongahela Power) commercial electricity rates in West Virginia

• Average commercial price, 202510.71¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs West Virginia average−8.7%state commercial average 11.73¢
• Commercial customers56,6762nd largest of 4 in West Virginia
• Average use5,268 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$564a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+23%from 8.70¢ per kWh
• Outages553 mina year per customer · US average 124

Mon Power (Monongahela Power) is an investor-owned utility serving 34 counties in West Virginia. Among the 4 West Virginia utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 2nd largest, with about 37% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Monongahela Power Co.

Mon Power commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Mon Power billed its commercial customers an average of 8.70¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 10.71¢, so it rose 23% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in West Virginia rose 36% over the same period. The highest year was 2024, at 10.92¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it fell 1.9%.

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.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Mon Power

In 2025 the average commercial price at Mon Power was 25% below the residential figure and 35% 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.

How Mon Power’s commercial rates are set

Mon Power is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the Public Service Commission of West Virginia 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. There is no competitive supply market for ordinary commercial accounts in West Virginia, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Mon Power

EIA counts 56,920 commercial meters at Mon Power in 2025 and reports no advanced (AMI) meters among them. Of those, 15,728 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 41,192 are standard meters. Without an advanced meter a business generally has no interval data, so its peak demand is read from the meter’s own register.

EIA records 134 commercial net-metered generating systems at Mon Power in 2025, with 5.14 MW of capacity between them: about 2.4 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 Mon Power’s electric service?

Mon Power customers went without power for an average of 553 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 2.83 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 1,250 minutes. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Mon Power serves

EIA records Mon Power serving customers in 34 West Virginia counties: Barbour, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Lewis, Marion, Mineral, Monongalia, Monroe, Nicholas, and 16 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 West Virginia

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

• Appalachian Power (12.74¢)
• Potomac Edison (11.63¢)

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 Mon Power’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 West Virginia page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

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: Mon Power commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Mon Power

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Mon Power?

Mon Power billed its commercial customers in West Virginia an average of 10.71¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 8.7% below the West Virginia commercial average of 11.73¢. 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 Mon Power?

About $564 a month in 2025, on average use of about 5,268 kWh a month. That is Mon Power’s commercial revenue divided by its 56,676 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Mon Power’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Mon Power billed commercial customers rose 23% between 2015 and 2025, from 8.70¢ to 10.71¢ per kWh. The West Virginia commercial average rose 36% over the same period.

How reliable is Mon Power’s electric service?

Mon Power customers averaged 553 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Is this the rate my business will pay Mon Power?

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 Mon Power’s tariff.