What published electricity plans cost, state by state

In 29 of the 30 states and DC, the median rate falls at each step from 500 to 2,000 kWh a month. The usual reason is the fixed monthly charge: it is billed however little a home uses, so a home that uses more spreads it over more kilowatt-hours.

California’s median moves both ways: it falls from 500 to 1,000 kWh and rises from 1,000 to 2,000 kWh.

New Mexico’s median moves both ways: it falls from 500 to 1,000 kWh and rises from 1,000 to 2,000 kWh.

In California, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Colorado, Indiana, Florida, North Carolina, and Missouri, the plan that is cheapest at one level of use is not the cheapest at another. A household choosing between them needs its own consumption rather than a typical one; the rate comparator ranks every plan at whatever usage it is given.

A state appears once the site has found and priced published plans from at least one of its utilities. Its figures cover those utilities and no others, which is why the number of utilities sits beside every row.

Not every utility. 1210 tariffs from 217 utilities, retrieved up to October 8, 2026. A utility missing here is one that has not been indexed yet.

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Every figure here is computed when the site is built, from the records named below, by the same code that fills the state, utility and cost-to-run pages this guide links to. When those records are refreshed, the figures change with them; the words around them do not, which is why no sentence here states a direction the data has not been checked for.

The methodology page sets out what the rate engine assumes and where its figures stop being reliable.