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Northern Virginia Elec Coop rate plans
2 residential plans are currently open to new customers. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.
What does Northern Virginia Elec cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,490 a year on the cheapest of the 2 plans we can price here — Schedule R-1, Residental Service — and $1,542 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $873 | Schedule R-1, Residental Service | $875 |
| 1,000 kWh | $1,490 | Schedule R-1, Residental Service | $1,542 |
| 2,000 kWh | $2,724 | Schedule R-1, Residental Service | $2,876 |
The same plan is cheapest at every level of use here, so the answer does not turn on how much you use. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.
What does Northern Virginia Elec Coop's residential rate cost?
Northern Virginia Elec Coop files a single residential tariff, so there is no plan to choose between — everyone served here is on the same terms. That makes this page short on comparison and long on one question instead: what does that tariff actually do to a bill?
Priced hour by hour across a full year, a small apartment on this tariff comes to about $756 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $1,227 — an effective 15.5¢ and 13.0¢ per kilowatt-hour once the fixed charge is spread across everything used.
With one plan and no hourly pricing, the only lever left is using less. Moving laundry or car charging to the middle of the night changes nothing here, which is worth knowing before you rearrange your evenings for no reason.
Expect the bill to swing with the weather rather than with anything you decide: the same house costs around $134 in July and $83 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.
How Northern Virginia Elec compares across Virginia
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 5 Virginia utilities we cover, and Northern Virginia Elec is the cheapest of the lot at about $1,227 a year; the state median is $1,614. The dearest, Kentucky Utilities, charges $2,222 for identical use — a gap set by the address, not by anything either household did.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $756 here against a state median of $938, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $1,602 against $2,181. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 13.0¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Every Virginia utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
When are Northern Virginia Elec’s peak hours?
Northern Virginia Elec’s peak hours are 6am–11pm. Everything outside those hours is off-peak.
At peak, Schedule R1-EV, Residential Electric Vehicle charges 11.9¢ a kWh; off-peak it is 6.5¢ — 1.8× apart. These hours only matter on a time-of-use plan — the default plan, Schedule R-1, Residental Service, charges one rate at every hour.
On Schedule R1-EV, Residential Electric Vehicle, every kilowatt-hour a day you move from 6am to midnight is worth about $20 a year in the month the gap is widest — an electric car or a water heater on a timer is the kind of load that actually moves. When to charge an electric car →
Which plan would cost you least?
No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.
That adds up to 13,880 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$54a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Schedule R-1, Residental Service — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule R-1, Residental ServiceOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,681 | — |
| Schedule R1-EV, Residential Electric VehiclePeak hits 6am–11pm every day, all year. | $1,736 | +$54 |
An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.
Before you switch anything
- What is a time-of-use electricity rate?
The same kilowatt-hour, priced differently depending on when you use it.
- Should you switch to a time-of-use electricity plan?
A wide peak-to-off-peak gap is a lever, not a saving. Levers need something to move.
- How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong
Six things that break a comparison, and the order to check them in.
Every plan, in detail
Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.