Data downloads

License

The compiled files are licensed under CC BY 4.0: reuse them freely, including commercially, with a credit and a link to the page you used. The underlying federal data are in the public domain.

What the files contain

Each file holds the same values shown on the pages, at full precision. Prices are cents per kWh, bills are US dollars per month, usage is kWh per month. Monthly figures since January 2026 are preliminary and are replaced when EIA revises them.

• monthly-prices.csv is the long series: one row per state (and the US) per month from January 2001 to August 2026, with the average residential, commercial, industrial and all-sector price and the kWh used per residential customer. It comes from EIA's Electric Power Monthly and the monthly survey of utilities (Form EIA-861M).
• states.csv has one row per state, DC and the US, and one column per measure: prices over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026, in August 2026¹ and in 2025, the changes, bills and usage, retail choice, outage minutes, generation mix and the Census household survey measures.
• states.json holds the same values with, for each measure, its label, unit, period, source and definition, so a script can label a chart without guessing.
• utilities.csv lists every distribution utility in each state from EIA's annual census (Form EIA-861) for 2025: 3,037² utility-state records. Columns cover bundled and delivery-only residential averages, commercial and industrial averages, the share of homes with a supplier, outage measures (SAIDI and SAIFI) and the counties served. Utilities that file EIA's short form report all customers together, in separate columns.
• texas-retail-providers.csv gives each Texas retail electric provider's residential customers and 2025 average revenue per kWh. These are past averages across all of a provider's plans, not offers.
• sources.json is the registry of every dataset used, with publisher, table, period, release date, URL and licence.

Practical uses

• Your state's trend. Filter monthly-prices.csv to one state and the US, then average each run of 12 months. That reproduces the 12-month figures on our state pages and removes the seasonal swing that a single month shows.
• Join to EIA's own files. The `eia_id` column in utilities.csv is EIA's utility number, so the file joins directly to EIA-861 tables for customer counts, sales or programs this site does not publish.
• Bill versus price. States.csv has both the average price and the kWh per home, which is enough to show why a cheap-per-kWh state can have a high bill. The average electric bill ranking walks through that pattern.
• Utilities against their state. Compare a utility's bundled residential average in utilities.csv with the state's 2025 value in states.csv; both come from the same EIA census.
• Keeping a chart current. Download again after each monthly release listed on the updates page; column names stay the same between releases.

Two cautions apply to any reuse. In retail-choice states, bundled, delivery-only and supplier figures cover different customers and different parts of the bill, so do not add them together. And EIA publishes no city prices: a county in utilities.csv can be served by several utilities.

How to cite

Credit the agency that produced the data and this site as the compiler, with the release you used. A citation has four parts:

1. the agency and dataset, such as "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly" for state prices or "U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861" for utility figures;
2. the release date and the period covered: the current monthly files were released on October 23, 2026 with data through August 2026¹, and the utility file uses the 2025 census released on October 7, 2026;
3. "compiled by US Electricity Rates";
4. a link to this page or to the page whose figures you used, with the date you downloaded the file. The sources page lists the exact table and release date for every dataset, and the methodology explains how each measure is calculated.