Retail electricity price: residential: West Virginia (Cents/kWh) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: US retail electricity prices (EIA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In West Virginia, the retail electricity price for the residential sector stood at 15.78 Cents/kWh in July 2026, versus 15.45 in June 2026. This represents an increase of 2.14 percent.
Sample. There are 439 observations in the monthly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time period going from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: the retail electricity price hit a trough of 5.51 Cents/kWh in January 1990; it peaked at 16.80 in May 2026; it had a mean of 8.84.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Cents/kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 16.8000 |
| 2026-06-30 | 15.4500 |
| 2026-07-31 | 15.7800 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for the residential sector in West Virginia |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Cents/kWh |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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