Electricity rates by state

Residential prices over the last 12 months ranged from 12.35¢ per kWh in North Dakota to 44.27¢ per kWh in Hawaii; the US average was 18.04¢ per kWh¹. The table ranks every state from the lowest to the highest and is sortable by any column.

Electricity rates by state: every state at a glance

1	North Dakota	12.35¢	13.31¢	11.82¢	+6.6%	7.58¢	7.99¢	$126.40	1,070	0.0%
2	Nebraska	12.74¢	13.54¢	12.05¢	+7.2%	8.88¢	8.29¢	$117.23	973	0.0%
3	Idaho	12.77¢	13.37¢	11.83¢	+9.8%	9.62¢	8.13¢	$110.36	933	0.0%
4	Louisiana	13.02¢	12.87¢	12.52¢	+5.3%	11.50¢	6.35¢	$153.32	1,225	0.0%
5	Utah	13.26¢	13.31¢	13.02¢	+3.5%	10.32¢	8.58¢	$99.06	761	0.0%
6	Nevada	13.45¢	12.72¢	13.26¢	−0.7%	9.34¢	8.49¢	$115.07	868	0.0%
7	Arkansas	13.57¢	14.37¢	12.87¢	+7.2%	11.34¢	6.86¢	$138.42	1,076	0.0%
8	Tennessee	13.61¢	13.42¢	13.22¢	+3.7%	13.27¢	6.65¢	$156.03	1,180	0.0%
9	Oklahoma	13.81¢	14.82¢	13.21¢	+6.3%	9.30¢	6.66¢	$140.52	1,064	0.0%
=10	Kentucky	13.94¢	13.80¢	13.13¢	+6.8%	12.37¢	7.21¢	$143.72	1,094	0.0%
=10	Montana	13.94¢	15.57¢	12.99¢	+9.5%	12.67¢	6.95¢	$110.80	853	0.0%
12	Missouri	13.97¢	16.02¢	13.30¢	+6.1%	10.91¢	8.56¢	$137.97	1,038	0.0%
13	Wyoming	14.01¢	14.43¢	13.37¢	+7.5%	9.73¢	8.73¢	$111.59	835	0.0%
=14	Iowa	14.20¢	17.06¢	13.62¢	+4.9%	11.28¢	7.43¢	$117.30	861	0.0%
=14	Washington	14.20¢	14.63¢	13.17¢	+11.9%	11.65¢	7.15¢	$124.41	945	0.0%
16	South Dakota	14.28¢	15.15¢	13.32¢	+8.2%	11.34¢	9.20¢	$131.10	984	0.0%
17	North Carolina	14.79¢	14.95¢	14.00¢	+5.5%	10.57¢	7.89¢	$146.14	1,044	0.0%
18	Mississippi	14.85¢	14.43¢	14.03¢	+7.8%	13.77¢	7.55¢	$166.05	1,184	0.0%
19	Kansas	15.13¢	15.47¢	14.44¢	+5.9%	11.60¢	8.27¢	$126.42	876	0.0%
20	Georgia	15.17¢	15.90¢	14.74¢	+4.4%	11.76¢	8.18¢	$158.70	1,077	0.0%
21	New Mexico	15.31¢	16.51¢	14.85¢	+5.0%	10.94¢	5.30¢	$94.65	638	0.0%
22	Arizona	15.39¢	15.05¢	15.26¢	+1.7%	12.22¢	7.83¢	$157.15	1,030	0.0%
23	Florida	15.41¢	14.99¢	15.21¢	+4.4%	11.74¢	9.13¢	$167.86	1,103	0.0%
=24	Oregon	15.53¢	15.92¢	15.46¢	+2.2%	10.29¢	8.32¢	$133.89	866	0.0%
=24	West Virginia	15.53¢	16.31¢	15.39¢	+0.9%	11.68¢	8.22¢	$165.13	1,073	0.0%
26	South Carolina	15.77¢	15.76¢	15.12¢	+5.5%	11.68¢	7.66¢	$161.21	1,067	0.0%
27	Texas	15.98¢	15.91¢	15.40¢	+4.8%	8.57¢	6.65¢	$170.95	1,110	55.5%
28	Minnesota	16.28¢	17.20¢	15.83¢	+4.2%	12.56¢	9.65¢	$117.67	744	0.0%
29	Alabama	16.44¢	16.33¢	16.09¢	+3.9%	14.77¢	7.86¢	$184.31	1,145	0.0%
30	Colorado	16.61¢	17.17¢	15.69¢	+7.9%	13.14¢	9.44¢	$103.30	658	0.0%
31	Virginia	16.64¢	17.64¢	15.28¢	+11.5%	10.98¢	10.01¢	$163.05	1,067	0.0%
32	Indiana	16.90¢	17.02¢	15.96¢	+8.8%	13.81¢	9.05¢	$149.72	938	0.0%
33	Delaware	17.98¢	18.70¢	17.15¢	+6.1%	13.61¢	10.87¢	$157.80	920	5.6%
34	Ohio	18.41¢	19.38¢	16.90¢	+11.7%	13.22¢	9.82¢	$147.74	874	58.1%
35	Wisconsin	18.79¢	19.41¢	18.08¢	+6.1%	13.49¢	9.35¢	$120.60	667	0.0%
36	Illinois	18.91¢	19.32¢	17.67¢	+10.6%	13.81¢	10.18¢	$126.59	717	22.5%
37	Pennsylvania	20.86¢	21.77¢	19.29¢	+12.3%	13.59¢	10.50¢	$161.90	839	22.4%
38	Maryland	21.18¢	21.40¢	19.53¢	+12.7%	16.61¢	14.35¢	$184.42	945	4.8%
39	Michigan	21.28¢	22.99¢	20.03¢	+8.0%	15.34¢	9.00¢	$127.17	635	0.0%
40	New Jersey	23.74¢	24.61¢	22.48¢	+10.2%	17.39¢	14.81¢	$150.59	670	6.1%
41	Vermont	23.90¢	23.84¢	22.79¢	+6.0%	20.78¢	12.77¢	$134.78	592	0.0%
42	District of Columbia	24.48¢	25.98¢	21.92¢	+19.8%	22.92¢	18.97¢	$140.05	639	10.3%
43	Alaska	26.94¢	29.41¢	26.11¢	+5.0%	22.79¢	22.50¢	$147.18	564	0.0%
44	New Hampshire	26.95¢	27.64¢	24.53¢	+13.8%	21.12¢	17.64¢	$156.94	640	40.8%
45	Connecticut	27.42¢	24.51¢	29.31¢	−9.0%	21.69¢	17.73¢	$206.46	704	16.3%
46	New York	28.60¢	28.65¢	26.39¢	+11.2%	22.28¢	10.10¢	$154.75	586	7.3%
47	Rhode Island	29.44¢	28.18¢	29.48¢	+1.2%	23.60¢	21.51¢	$165.62	562	25.9%
48	Maine	29.60¢	32.11¢	27.69¢	+9.7%	22.22¢	15.57¢	$147.67	533	7.1%
49	Massachusetts	30.39¢	30.48¢	30.41¢	+0.8%	24.17¢	19.54¢	$181.08	596	63.6%
50	California	32.34¢	29.75¢	31.35¢	+3.7%	27.00¢	21.28¢	$154.73	494	42.1%
51	Hawaii	44.27¢	47.18¢	40.40¢	+8.8%	40.31¢	35.63¢	$207.89	515	0.0%
	United States	18.04¢	18.16¢	17.23¢	+6.5%	13.87¢	8.91¢	$150.68	874	15.1%

Source: EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state; EIA, Historical state data, annual sales, revenue and customers; EIA-861 2025, average monthly bill by state; EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final. Rank 1 is the lowest value. Residential revenue divided by kilowatt-hours sold over the 12 months 2025-09 to 2026-08 (EIA-861M; months since January 2026 preliminary). Average revenue per kWh, all charges included; not a tariff. Period: September 2025 to August 2026.

How to read the table

The first price column is the average over the last 12 months (September 2025 to August 2026), the fairest single measure because it covers every season. The next is the latest month (August 2026¹), then the 2025 annual average from EIA's final utility census. The change compares the last 12 months with the 12 before. Bills and usage are 2025 averages per residential customer, and the last column is the share of residential customers buying from a competitive supplier or community choice aggregator.

All prices are average revenue per kilowatt-hour: what each group paid in total, divided by what it used. Taxes collected for governments are mostly excluded. For a household-level view, each state page adds what households themselves reported paying to the Census Bureau.

State pages by region

Northeast

ConnecticutNew England division
MaineNew England division
MassachusettsNew England division
New HampshireNew England division
New JerseyMiddle Atlantic division
New YorkMiddle Atlantic division
PennsylvaniaMiddle Atlantic division
Rhode IslandNew England division
VermontNew England division

Midwest

IllinoisEast North Central division
IndianaEast North Central division
IowaWest North Central division
KansasWest North Central division
MichiganEast North Central division
MinnesotaWest North Central division
MissouriWest North Central division
NebraskaWest North Central division
North DakotaWest North Central division
OhioEast North Central division
South DakotaWest North Central division
WisconsinEast North Central division

South

AlabamaEast South Central division
ArkansasWest South Central division
DelawareSouth Atlantic division
District of ColumbiaSouth Atlantic division
FloridaSouth Atlantic division
GeorgiaSouth Atlantic division
KentuckyEast South Central division
LouisianaWest South Central division
MarylandSouth Atlantic division
MississippiEast South Central division
North CarolinaSouth Atlantic division
OklahomaWest South Central division
South CarolinaSouth Atlantic division
TennesseeEast South Central division
TexasWest South Central division
VirginiaSouth Atlantic division
West VirginiaSouth Atlantic division

West

AlaskaPacific division
ArizonaMountain division
CaliforniaPacific division
ColoradoMountain division
HawaiiPacific division
IdahoMountain division
MontanaMountain division
NevadaMountain division
New MexicoMountain division
OregonPacific division
UtahMountain division
WashingtonPacific division
WyomingMountain division

Sources

EIA, Electric Power Monthly / EIA-861M sales and revenue by state; table sales_revenue.xlsx (EPM Table 5.6.A); January 2001 to 2026-08; months since January 2026 preliminary; released October 23, 2026. www.eia.gov
EIA, Historical state data, annual sales, revenue and customers; table HS861 2010-.xlsx; 2010-2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
EIA-861 2025, average monthly bill by state; table Average_Bill_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov
EIA-861 annual electric power industry report, 2025 final; table Sales_Ult_Cust_2025; 2025, final; released October 7, 2026. www.eia.gov

How every figure is built: methodology. Found an error? Write to [email protected]; corrections are listed on the updates page.