What published electricity plans cost, state by state

In 16 of the 18 states, 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.

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

In Michigan and Florida, 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. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Virginia, Minnesota, Colorado, and Georgia appear without a link: their own state pages have not passed this site’s publication checks yet, and the figures here come from the same plans.

Pilot data. 450 tariffs from 45 utilities, retrieved September 2, 2026. This is a sample, not national coverage — a utility missing here is one that has not been indexed yet.

Every figure here is computed when the site is built, from the records named below, by the same rate engine that fills the state, utility and appliance 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 text was reviewed by the editor before publication. The methodology page sets out what the rate engine assumes and where its figures stop being reliable.