Utilities
Electric Power
Appalachian Power (a division of American Electric Power) is the major provider of electric service to the Martinsville-Henry County area. Listed below are sample industrial electric rates for Appalachian Power customers as of January 2023:
|
KW Demand / Kwh per Month |
Avg Monthly Cost | Cents/Kwh |
|---|---|---|
| 75 KW / 30,000 Kwh |
$3,612 |
12.0¢ |
| 1,000 KW / 400,000 Kwh |
$45,095 |
11.3¢ |
| 50,000 KW / 25,000,000 Kwh |
$2,385,106 |
9.5¢ |
Above rates do not include state or local taxes
Primarily serving the City of Martinsville, another provider of electric power in the area is the Martinsville Electric Department. It purchases wholesale power from American Municipal Power of Ohio (AMP-Ohio) to meet the city's peak demand of 43 million watt hours. The city also generates a portion of their peak demand energy at an historic hydroelectric dam on the Smith River. View rates for local customers.
Water/Sewer
With over 8 million gallons of excess water capacity per day and 6 million gallons of excess sewer capacity per day, Martinsville-Henry County has all of the water you need to be successful.
Henry County Public Service Authority (industrial rates)
$45 for the first 4,000 gallons and then $7 for each additional 1,000 gallons
For large industrial users, the Henry County PSA will discount water rates for industrial users that use at least 500,000 gallons per day. The discounted rates are as follows:
- 500,000 to 749,999 GPD: $3.50 per thousand gallons
- 750,000 to 999,999 GPD: $3.00 per thousand gallons
- 1,000,000 to 1,999,999 GPD: $2.75 per thousand gallons
- 2,000,000+ GPD: $2.25 per thousand gallons
City of Martinsville Water Service
Cost per month (up to 4,000 gallons/month) based on meter size:
1" Meter: $39.37
2" Meter: $124.64
4" Meter: $466.05
6" Meter: 1,035.08
8" Meter: 1,831.71
10" Meter: 2,855.95
12" Meter: 4,107.80
Next 2,000 gallons/month: $3.19 per 1,000 gallons
Next 100,000 gallons/month: $2.94 per 1,000 gallons
Next 100,000 gallons/month: $2.43 per 1,000 gallons
Over 206,000 gallons/month: $2.10 per 1,000 gallons
Natural Gas
Southwestern Virginia Gas Company is the community's Natural Gas Provider. They have been serving Martinsville-Henry County since 1942. They have a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Virginia State Corporation Commission to distribute gas to Martinsville, Henry County, and portions of Pittsylvania County. Southwestern Virginia Gas has 149 miles of main and 4,981 service lines supplying gas to over 4,600 customers. Their largest current customer consumes over 2,000 MCF per day. Listed below is their current rate schedule as of October 31, 2023:
|
Residential Firm Service
|
|
|---|---|
|
All Ccf |
$0.7599 per CCF |
|
Customer Charge per Month |
$12.00 |
|
Commercial & Industrial Firm Service
|
|
|---|---|
|
First 100 Ccf |
$0.7566 per CCF |
|
Over 100 Ccf |
$0.7346 per CCF |
|
Customer Charge per Month |
$17.00 |
|
Industrial Interruptible Service
|
|
|---|---|
|
First 1,000 Mcf |
$7.233 per MCF |
|
Next 4,000 Mcf |
$7.078 per MCF |
|
Over 5,000 Mcf |
$6.871per MCF |
|
Customer Charge per Month |
$53.00 |
Telecommunications
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC) offers Dark fiber, SONET/TDM establishes levels from 1.5 Mbps (equal to a DS1 line) to 1 Tbps, IP services of 10 meg to 1GigE, Co-location shelter including DC power, remote monitoring, generated backup, and secured access, MBC Fiber Backbone.
Martinsville Information Network (Mi-Net) offers a 48 fiber backbone, SONET establishes OC (Optical Carrier) levels from 51.8 Mbps (equal to a T3 line) to 2.48 Gbps., Voice, video and data capabilities, Traffic Management, Electrical systems monitoring, Video conferencing, and High-speed internet access.
Century Link (formerly Embarq) offers local and long distance phone service, telephone equipment, data equipment, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame relay, Video equipment and Web hosting.
T-Mobile (formerly Sprint) offers local and long distance phone service, dedicated T-1 internet service, and metro ethernet service (10/100Mbs transport).
Xfinity/Comcast offers cable TV and broadband internet service.