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Rappahannock Electric Coop rate plans
2 residential plans are currently open to new customers. None of them price by hour, so shifting when you use power won’t change your bill here.
What does Rappahannock Electric cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $2,023 a year on the cheapest of the 2 plans we can price here — A-1 Residential and Church Service Single-Phase — and $2,065 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $1,095 | A-1 Residential and Church Service Single-Phase | $1,138 |
| 1,000 kWh | $2,023 | A-1 Residential and Church Service Single-Phase | $2,065 |
| 2,000 kWh | $3,946 | A-1 Residential and Church Service Single-Phase | $3,988 |
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 Rappahannock Electric Coop's residential rate cost?
Rappahannock Electric 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 $939 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $1,614 — an effective 19.3¢ and 17.1¢ 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 $189 in July and $105 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.
How Rappahannock Electric 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 Rappahannock Electric comes in 3rd cheapest at about $1,614 a year; the state median is $1,614. The range runs from $1,227 at Northern Virginia Elec to $2,222 at Kentucky Utilities, and since the utility is set by the address, the part of that gap you can act on is the plan, not the company.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $939 here against a state median of $938, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $2,181 against $2,181. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 17.1¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Every Virginia utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
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 9,923 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$43a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — A-1 Residential and Church Service Single-Phase — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| A-1 Residential and Church Service Single-PhaseThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak October–May. | $1,640 | — |
| A-1 Residential and Church Service Three-PhaseThe hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak October–May. | $1,682 | +$43 |
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.
Making sense of the bill
- How to read your electric bill
Four kinds of charge, only two of which you can do anything about.
- Fixed charges on your electric bill: what they are and why they matter
The line that makes cents-per-kilowatt-hour comparisons quietly wrong.
- 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.