Electricity Rates by State Table

Average cost of electricity per kWh by state, highest to lowest

Rates are average residential prices from the EIA’s July 2026 release. The monthly bill column applies each rate to a fixed 900 kWh month so the 51 jurisdictions are compared on the same usage. Each state name links to that state’s electricity rates page.

Note: EIA marks the most recent months of its monthly state price data as preliminary. Figures can be revised in later releases, and this table updates when they are. Ranks are competition ranks: states with the same rate share a rank.

Residential change vs Jul 2025 compares each residential rate with the same month a year earlier (July 2025), so seasonal swings cancel out. Avg. residential bill is EIA residential revenue divided by the number of residential customers for July 2026: what the average household was actually billed that month. It moves with the season (summer cooling and winter heating raise it), unlike the Est. monthly bill at 900 kWh, which holds usage fixed so states compare on one basis. Commercial and Industrial are EIA’s average prices per kWh for those sectors in July 2026. All figures are for the same month as the residential rates; “n/a” means EIA did not report that figure.

How to read these rates

• What the rate is. Each figure is the average residential price per kilowatt-hour the U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes for that jurisdiction in Form EIA-861M. It is an average of what residential customers actually paid — supply, delivery, and the fixed charges spread over the kilowatt-hours sold — not a single utility’s advertised tariff.
• What the US average is. The 18.31¢ figure is the EIA’s own US-total residential price for July 2026: total residential revenue divided by the kilowatt-hours actually sold nationwide, so a large market counts for more than a small one. The vs US average column measures every jurisdiction against it. Averaging the 51 jurisdiction rates equally instead gives 19.26¢/kWh — higher, because several small expensive jurisdictions then count the same as California. That unweighted mean is shown for context and is not used anywhere else on this page.
• Why your bill differs. The monthly column holds usage fixed at 900 kWh so states can be compared on one basis. Real bills move with how much you use, your rate plan, and the season.
• Average bill vs the 900 kWh estimate. The US average residential bill for July 2026 is $212.44 (EIA residential revenue ÷ residential customers). The $164.79 estimate is the 18.31¢ rate applied to a fixed 900 kWh. They differ because real usage varies by state and season. Commercial customers paid 14.53¢ and industrial customers 9.77¢ per kWh nationally; US residential rates changed +4.9% from July 2025.
• Vintage. Every figure on this page comes from the same EIA release — July 2026 — and refreshes when the monthly pipeline publishes a newer one. See the methodology for how the dataset is ingested and checked.

Why rates differ this much between states

A 3.8× gap between Hawaii and Louisiana is a real feature of the US market, not a data artifact. Electricity is generated, transmitted, and billed under different resource mixes and regulatory regimes in every state. The factors documented in the site’s driver taxonomy — generation mix, fuel costs, transmission constraints, distribution investment, capacity markets, regulatory rate cases, and demand growth — are the categories that separate a 12.72¢ state from a 48.00¢ one.

This table shows what rates are, not why any one of them moved. A price series records movement; it never proves cause. Where the site publishes a reviewed, state-specific driver analysis it says so on that state’s page and dates it. For the general categories see what drives electricity generation costs and the per-state rate driver analyses. For how a single jurisdiction’s rate has moved over the last decade, follow its rate-history link in the table above.

Cite this page

Data month: July 2026. Underlying source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861M state residential retail prices (also published in EIA’s Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, which also carries the commercial and industrial prices). The average residential bill is revenue per customer from EIA’s Form EIA-861M sales, revenue and customer data (revenue also in Electric Power Monthly Table 5.5.A). The table updates when EIA publishes a newer month, so cite the data month with any figure you quote.

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PriceOfElectricity.com. (2026, September 28). Electricity rates by state table (data month: July 2026) [Data set]. Data from U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861M monthly retail sales, revenue, customers, and prices (EIA Electric Power Monthly, Tables 5.6.A and 5.5.A). https://www.priceofelectricity.com/electricity-cost

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"Electricity Rates by State Table." PriceOfElectricity.com, 28 Sept. 2026, https://www.priceofelectricity.com/electricity-cost. Data month: July 2026; source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861M monthly retail sales, revenue, customers, and prices (EIA Electric Power Monthly, Tables 5.6.A and 5.5.A).

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