By Alex Reyes, founding editor · Published · Figures from data retrieved
The average US household paid 8.6¢ per kWh in 2001 and 17.3¢ in 2025, a change of +102%. Over the last ten years the price rose 37%, and over the last five it rose 32%. Every one of the 50 states and DC is dearer than in 2001. These are the prices of each year, not adjusted for inflation.
The largest rises were in Washington, DC (+182%), Connecticut (+169%), California (+169%), and Maryland (+154%); the smallest in Nevada (+45%), Louisiana (+59%), Iowa (+63%), and Arkansas (+66%).
Since 2020 the US average rose 32%, and 17 of the 50 states and DC rose faster. The steepest were Washington, DC (+74%), Maine (+65%), California (+59%), and Maryland (+50%); the gentlest Iowa (+10%), North Dakota (+13%), Kansas (+13%), and South Dakota (+14%). None of them fell over either the last five years or the last ten.
| State | 2001 | 2025 | Since 2001 | Ten years | Five years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington, DC | 7.8¢ | 21.9¢ | +182% | +69% | +74% |
| Connecticut | 10.9¢ | 29.4¢ | +169% | +40% | +29% |
| California | 12.1¢ | 32.5¢ | +169% | +91% | +59% |
| Maryland | 7.7¢ | 19.5¢ | +154% | +41% | +50% |
| Hawaii | 16.3¢ | 40.6¢ | +148% | +37% | +34% |
| West Virginia | 6.3¢ | 15.4¢ | +146% | +53% | +31% |
| Oregon | 6.3¢ | 15.4¢ | +145% | +44% | +38% |
| Massachusetts | 12.5¢ | 30.5¢ | +144% | +54% | +39% |
| Rhode Island | 12.1¢ | 29.5¢ | +143% | +53% | +34% |
| Michigan | 8.3¢ | 20.0¢ | +142% | +39% | +23% |
| Kentucky | 5.6¢ | 13.2¢ | +137% | +29% | +22% |
| Indiana | 6.9¢ | 16.2¢ | +134% | +40% | +27% |
| Washington | 5.7¢ | 13.1¢ | +130% | +44% | +33% |
| Wisconsin | 7.9¢ | 18.2¢ | +130% | +29% | +27% |
| Alabama | 7.0¢ | 16.1¢ | +129% | +38% | +28% |
| New Jersey | 10.2¢ | 22.6¢ | +122% | +43% | +41% |
| Alaska | 12.1¢ | 26.1¢ | +115% | +32% | +16% |
| Colorado | 7.5¢ | 15.8¢ | +112% | +31% | +28% |
| Maine | 13.1¢ | 27.8¢ | +112% | +78% | +65% |
| Tennessee | 6.3¢ | 13.2¢ | +108% | +28% | +22% |
| Minnesota | 7.6¢ | 15.8¢ | +108% | +31% | +20% |
| Illinois | 8.7¢ | 17.7¢ | +103% | +42% | +36% |
| Ohio | 8.4¢ | 17.0¢ | +103% | +32% | +38% |
| Pennsylvania | 9.7¢ | 19.3¢ | +99% | +41% | +42% |
| Delaware | 8.6¢ | 17.1¢ | +99% | +28% | +36% |
| Wyoming | 6.8¢ | 13.4¢ | +98% | +22% | +20% |
| Idaho | 6.0¢ | 11.8¢ | +97% | +19% | +19% |
| New Hampshire | 12.5¢ | 24.6¢ | +97% | +33% | +29% |
| Virginia | 7.8¢ | 15.3¢ | +96% | +34% | +27% |
| South Carolina | 7.7¢ | 15.0¢ | +95% | +19% | +17% |
| Utah | 6.7¢ | 13.1¢ | +94% | +20% | +25% |
| Missouri | 7.0¢ | 13.5¢ | +93% | +20% | +20% |
| Georgia | 7.7¢ | 14.7¢ | +91% | +28% | +23% |
| Mississippi | 7.4¢ | 14.0¢ | +90% | +24% | +26% |
| Kansas | 7.7¢ | 14.6¢ | +90% | +18% | +13% |
| Nebraska | 6.5¢ | 12.3¢ | +90% | +16% | +14% |
| Montana | 6.9¢ | 13.0¢ | +89% | +19% | +15% |
| New York | 14.0¢ | 26.4¢ | +88% | +42% | +44% |
| Arizona | 8.3¢ | 15.3¢ | +85% | +26% | +25% |
| North Dakota | 6.5¢ | 11.8¢ | +82% | +23% | +13% |
| Vermont | 12.7¢ | 22.9¢ | +81% | +34% | +17% |
| Oklahoma | 7.3¢ | 13.1¢ | +80% | +29% | +30% |
| South Dakota | 7.4¢ | 13.4¢ | +80% | +21% | +14% |
| Florida | 8.6¢ | 15.2¢ | +77% | +32% | +35% |
| Texas | 8.9¢ | 15.5¢ | +75% | +34% | +32% |
| North Carolina | 8.1¢ | 14.0¢ | +73% | +24% | +23% |
| New Mexico | 8.7¢ | 15.1¢ | +73% | +21% | +17% |
| Arkansas | 7.7¢ | 12.8¢ | +66% | +31% | +23% |
| Iowa | 8.4¢ | 13.7¢ | +63% | +18% | +10% |
| Louisiana | 7.9¢ | 12.6¢ | +59% | +35% | +30% |
| Nevada | 9.1¢ | 13.2¢ | +45% | +3.1% | +16% |
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 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.