How home electricity prices have changed, state by state

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.

Of the 24 years after 2001, the US average fell in 3 (2002, −1.6%, 2016, −0.8%, and 2018, −0.1%) and rose in the rest. The steepest single year was 2022, when it rose 10% to 15.0¢.

Ranked dearest first among the 50 states and DC, the places changed between 2001 and 2025. The largest climbs were West Virginia (48th to 25th), Oregon (47th to 26th), Indiana (40th to 20th), and Maryland (31st to 14th). The largest falls down the table were Nevada (13th to 42nd), Louisiana (24th to 48th), Arkansas (29th to 47th), and Iowa (19th to 36th). A state moves down without its price falling: it only has to rise more slowly than the others.

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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.