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Resources for journalists, researchers, and publishers who want to reference or cite PriceOfElectricity.com data.

Site overview

PriceOfElectricity.com is a public reference for U.S. residential electricity rates by state. It provides average rate data (¢/kWh), affordability indices, a proprietary Electricity Price Index™, Value Score™ rankings, and historical snapshots. All data is sourced from publicly available utility and government datasets and processed through a documented normalization pipeline.

What makes it useful

State-by-state comparability — Normalized average rates across all 50 states using a consistent methodology.
Proprietary benchmarking — The Electricity Price Index™ normalizes each state rate to a national baseline of 100, enabling direct comparison.
Update history — Data versioning and snapshots allow trend analysis over time.
Machine-readable — Structured JSON and CSV exports, content registry, and graph endpoints make it easy to ingest programmatically.
Transparent methodology — All scoring formulas are publicly documented.

Machine-readable endpoints

/knowledge.json — Single-bundle site summary for agents and LLMs
/registry.json — Canonical content registry of all pages
/graph.json — Graph of content nodes and relationships
/methodology — Documented scoring formulas and interpretation guidance
/national — National aggregate statistics (average, median, extremes)

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