About US Electricity Rates
US Electricity Rates explains what electricity costs across the United States, state by state and utility by utility, from official public data. Every figure is dated and sourced.
What we do
We turn the U.S. Energy Information Administration's monthly and annual electricity data, and related federal and state data, into pages that answer what people ask: what electricity costs where they live, what their utility charges on average, why prices differ, how they have changed and how retail choice works.
What we do not do
We publish no supplier offers, take no referral fees, run no ads and recommend no utility, supplier or plan. Where a decision depends on current offers or tariffs, we link to the official source: the state utility commission's comparison site or the utility's tariff.
Who publishes the site
The site is published by the company identified in the privacy policy. Questions and corrections: [email protected].
Where the numbers come from
Prices, bills and utility figures come from the U.S. Energy Information Administration: its monthly survey of state and utility sales and revenue, and its annual census of every electric utility (EIA-861). Household-reported bills come from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey; consumer price changes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; weather from NOAA; bill assistance from the Department of Health and Human Services; retail-choice details from state utility commissions. The sources page lists every dataset with its release date, and the methodology explains how each figure is computed and checked against the agencies' own tables.
How the pages are made
Every state and utility page is written for its subject from a fact library built from those files. Each number on a page is drawn from the library at build time, so a figure in a sentence, a chart and a table always agree, and each carries a numbered source. When EIA publishes new data, the figures are rebuilt and checked before anything is republished; the updates page lists the release calendar and any corrections.