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Virginia · EIA + PVWatts · refreshed October 6, 2026

Virginia solar, by the numbers.

Electricity prices for Dominion, Appalachian Power and every utility that reports to EIA, straight from federal data. Sun hours for 9 Virginia towns from NREL. And a calculator that shows the year solar beats your utility.

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17.55¢

VA residential rate

July 2026, EIA (prelim.)

+11.2%

vs. a year earlier

July 2025: 15.78¢

18.31¢

US average

same month, all states

1,389

kWh per kW per year

median Virginia roof, PVWatts

Rates

The utility line only goes one way.

Virginia's residential price was 10.59¢ ten years ago and 17.55¢ in July 2026. Every solar payback estimate hinges on what this line does next, which is why the calculator makes you pick.

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Residential electricity price, Virginia vs. United States, monthlyCents per kilowatt-hour over the last ten years, 10.59¢ to 17.55¢ for Virginia. Virginia has been below the national average but the gap has narrowed.10¢12¢14¢16¢18¢201620182020202220242026VirginiaUnited States
U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861M. Monthly average revenue per kWh, residential sector. Latest months are preliminary.
Average residential price by Virginia utility, 2025APCo17.2¢CVEC16.2¢NNEC16.0¢Danville15.8¢REC15.5¢SEC15.5¢ODP15.3¢Dominion15.2¢MEC14.5¢SVEC14.5¢ANEC14.4¢NOVEC11.6¢
EIA-861 annual, residential revenue ÷ sales. 2025 is an early release where marked on each utility's page.

By utility

Your utility matters more than your roof.

A kilowatt-hour from APCo costs 48% more than one from NOVEC. Same panels, different payback. Each Virginia utility gets a page with its ten-year price history, customers, counties and what that price does to solar math.

Sun

How much a roof makes, town by town.

All 9 places

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Plain answers, with the receipts.

Why this exists

Independent numbers from a company that installs solar.

GoSolarVA is run by Virtue Solar, a Charlottesville, Virginia installer. That's the bias, stated up front. The data is public, the formulas are published on the methodology page, and the calculator doesn't know who's asking. If the math says wait, it says wait.