West Virginia · electric utility
Mon Power regulated rate & rate increases
Mon Power is a FirstEnergy utility serving north-central West Virginia (Morgantown, Clarksburg, and Fairmont) (about 395,000 customers). Mon Power owns the Harrison and Fort Martin coal plants; a 2025 PSC settlement added a monthly environmental-compliance (ELG) surcharge, with Fort Martin slated to retire in 2035 and Harrison in 2040. (source)
Mon Power customer service & quick facts
The official ways to reach Mon Power for outages, billing, and account help. RateWatchdog is independent and not affiliated with Mon Power — these are the utility's own channels.
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No supplier to shop in West Virginia
West Virginia doesn't offer residential electric choice, so there's no third-party supplier to compare against — your rate is the regulated rate the Public Service Commission of West Virginia approves. Instead of a bill audit, we track Mon Power's rate cases so you can see what's proposed and what it means for your bill.
Why West Virginia bills are rising →Is Mon Power a monopoly? Can you switch?
For delivery, yes — it's a monopoly. Mon Power is the only company that runs the poles and wires to homes in its territory, so you can't pick a different company to deliver your power. That part is a regulated monopoly: Mon Power, owned by FirstEnergy, can only charge what the WV PSC approves in a rate case.
And in West Virginia, there's nothing to switch to. Unlike "shopping" states, West Virginia doesn't offer residential electric choice — no competitive supplier sells you the electricity. Mon Power provides both the delivery and the power itself at a single regulated rate the WV PSC approves. Your one real lever is the rate case: that's where Mon Power's prices are set, and where you can file a public comment.
How often does Mon Power's power go out?
Federal reliability data, reported by the utility to the U.S. government. SAIDI is the average total time a customer is without power in a year; SAIFI is the average number of outages.
In 2024, including major storms
14 hr 12 min
without power, across about 2.9 outages
What the average customer actually experienced.
On a typical day (storms excluded)
7 hr 42 min
without power, across about 2.3 outages
Normal operations, with major event days removed.
For Mon Power, major storms drove roughly 46% of 2024's total outage time — the gap between the two numbers above is weather the utility couldn't fully control.
On normal-day reliability, Mon Power is the 2nd-most reliable of the 4 West Virginia utilities we track — the range runs from 4 hr 13 min (Potomac Edison (West Virginia)) to 11 hr 1 min (Wheeling Power) of typical-day outage time per year.
Source: U.S. EIA Form EIA-861, 2024 reliability data (IEEE 1366 standard), for Monongahela Power Co. eia.gov →
Rate cases & increases
No active Mon Power rate cases in our tracker right now. We monitor the WV PSC dockets — get an alert when one is filed. See why West Virginia bills are rising →
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