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amounting to a 0.7 percent decrease in overall rates, reflects increased operational efficiencies and growth in sales of electricity in the utility’s Virginia service territory, a spokesman for the utility explained.
The average residential customer using 800 kilowatthours a month would see a decrease of 34
79.4%