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Electricity rates by state

Over the twelve months to June 2026, US homes paid an average of 17.9¢ per kWh, up 6.7% on the twelve months before, and $156 a month. North Dakota was the cheapest at 12.3¢ and Hawaii the dearest at 42.7¢; prices rose in 48 of the 51.

A price is not a bill. The largest average bill was in Hawaii, at $220 a month for 514 kWh; the smallest in New Mexico, at $98. Every figure is the EIA’s count of what homes were billed, riders and every utility in the state included, not any one plan’s rate.

July 2025 – June 2026, dearest first
RankState12-month priceOn a year beforeJune 2026Average billAverage use
—United States17.9¢↑ +6.7%18.3¢$156870 kWh
1Hawaii42.7¢↑ +3.0%52.7¢$220514 kWh
2California32.9¢↑ +2.9%34.7¢$160487 kWh
3Massachusetts30.4¢↑ +1.3%29.6¢$183603 kWh
4Rhode Island29.0¢↓ −0.2%29.2¢$164564 kWh
5Maine29.0¢↑ +11%29.6¢$156538 kWh
6Connecticut28.4¢↓ −6.1%24.3¢$201708 kWh
7New York28.0¢↑ +10.0%29.5¢$165592 kWh
8Alaska26.7¢↑ +5.2%28.2¢$157587 kWh
9New Hampshire26.3¢↑ +12%27.0¢$169645 kWh
10Washington, DC24.0¢↑ +25%24.4¢$152633 kWh
11New Jersey23.8¢↑ +16%25.0¢$160672 kWh
12Vermont23.7¢↑ +5.4%24.4¢$141595 kWh
13Maryland21.8¢↑ +18%21.8¢$207951 kWh
14Michigan20.7¢↑ +6.4%23.0¢$131629 kWh
15Pennsylvania20.5¢↑ +13%21.7¢$173846 kWh
16Wisconsin18.6¢↑ +6.1%19.6¢$123660 kWh
17Illinois18.5¢↑ +11%19.9¢$131706 kWh
18Ohio18.0¢↑ +11%19.2¢$157873 kWh
19Delaware17.6¢↑ +5.2%19.3¢$166944 kWh
20Indiana16.9¢↑ +9.7%17.5¢$159942 kWh
21Colorado16.5¢↑ +7.5%17.1¢$110668 kWh
22Alabama16.4¢↑ +5.1%16.4¢$1851,127 kWh
23Virginia16.3¢↑ +12%17.2¢$1721,057 kWh
24Minnesota16.2¢↑ +4.1%17.5¢$119738 kWh
25Texas15.9¢↑ +4.9%15.9¢$1741,095 kWh
26South Carolina15.6¢↑ +6.1%15.6¢$1641,058 kWh
27Oregon15.5¢↑ +3.1%16.3¢$132853 kWh
28West Virginia15.5¢↑ +0.6%15.5¢$1641,064 kWh
29Florida15.4¢↑ +6.6%15.1¢$1681,094 kWh
30Arizona15.4¢↑ +2.2%15.2¢$1611,048 kWh
31New Mexico15.3¢↑ +5.3%15.1¢$98644 kWh
32Georgia15.0¢↑ +4.3%16.4¢$1611,071 kWh
33Kansas15.0¢↑ +4.2%15.7¢$130870 kWh
34Mississippi14.7¢↑ +7.5%14.9¢$1701,160 kWh
35North Carolina14.6¢↑ +4.1%14.7¢$1511,034 kWh
36South Dakota14.1¢↑ +7.7%15.4¢$138981 kWh
37Iowa14.0¢↑ +4.4%15.9¢$119849 kWh
38Wyoming14.0¢↑ +8.7%15.2¢$114810 kWh
39Washington14.0¢↑ +13%14.9¢$131933 kWh
40Missouri13.9¢↑ +6.1%16.2¢$1451,045 kWh
41Kentucky13.8¢↑ +6.5%14.3¢$1551,116 kWh
42Montana13.8¢↑ +9.6%15.1¢$113823 kWh
43Oklahoma13.6¢↑ +7.4%14.3¢$1421,046 kWh
44Tennessee13.5¢↑ +4.7%14.1¢$1631,205 kWh
45Utah13.4¢↑ +5.6%13.4¢$102763 kWh
46Nevada13.3¢↓ −3.7%13.1¢$117877 kWh
47Arkansas13.3¢↑ +6.8%14.1¢$1401,048 kWh
48Louisiana13.0¢↑ +7.4%13.5¢$1561,198 kWh
49Nebraska12.8¢↑ +7.3%13.3¢$122956 kWh
50Idaho12.5¢↑ +7.7%14.4¢$112899 kWh
51North Dakota12.3¢↑ +6.7%14.1¢$1311,064 kWh
Price is residential revenue over sales across the twelve months; bill and use are revenue and sales per customer, averaged over the same months. “On a year before” compares with the twelve months before those. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, electricity retail sales (US Government public domain), retrieved September 23, 2026.

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Plans priced in each state

Each state’s page prices the published plans of the utilities found there, beside the figures above. A state appears once plans from at least one of its utilities have been placed in it.

Not every utility. 1211 tariffs from 217 utilities, retrieved up to October 8, 2026. A utility missing here is one that has not been indexed yet.