Average Electric Bill in Alabama
Residential · 12-month average, June 2025 – May 2026.
That works out to about $2,214 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Alabama has the 4th highest average residential bill.
What makes up the bill
Price × usage = bill, exactly: 16.35¢/kWh × 1,128 kWh ≈ $185. A state can land high on either factor — Alabama pays below the national rate but uses much more power than average.
Compared with nearby states
| Alabama | $185 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $155 | |
| Mississippi | $169 | |
| Florida | $169 | |
| Tennessee | $162 | |
| Georgia | $161 |
Alabama is $29 a month above (+18.7%) the U.S. average of $155. Neighboring states share fuel mixes, weather, and often a grid operator, which makes them a closer benchmark than the national average.
Trend since 2008
Each point is a trailing 12-month average, which strips out the summer/winter swing and leaves the underlying trend. Bills start in January 2008 because that is when EIA began reporting customer counts.
Seasonal swing
- Highest month
- $245
- July 2025
- Lowest month
- $144
- November 2025
- Swing
- $102
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $160
- May 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Alabama peaks in July 2025 and bottoms out in November 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Alabama electricity bills in context
Alabama households pay an average of $185 per month for electricity, ranking fourth among the 50 states and DC for the costliest bills. This $30-per-month premium over the national average of $155 stems entirely from higher usage: the typical Alabama home consumes 1,128 kWh each month against a national average of 871 kWh, a difference of 257 kWh. The state's price of 16.35¢/kWh is actually 1.49¢/kWh below the national average of 17.84¢/kWh, so lower rates are more than offset by greater consumption.
Over the past year, bills rose 2.5% from $180 to $185 per month. Looking back further, the long-term trend has been sharply upward: since May 2021, the average bill climbed 23.1% from $150, and since December 2008 it has grown 39.6% from $132. Seasonality creates substantial swings through the year, with the peak of $245 in July 2025 towering $101 above the lowest month of $144 in November 2025; the twelve-month average of $185 sits between these extremes.
Compared with its neighbours, Alabama's bill exceeds those in Georgia ($161) and Tennessee ($162), but runs below Mississippi and Florida, which both average $169 per month.
Written from the EIA figures on this page, covering data through May 2026.
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How this is calculated
EIA’s retail-sales dataset reports, for every state and month, total residential revenue and the number of residential customers served. The average monthly bill is simply the first divided by the second — total spending across all households, spread evenly over all accounts.
bill = revenue ÷ customers · averaged over 12 months (June 2025 – May 2026)
Two caveats worth knowing. It is an average, so it blends apartments with large houses — a typical household in Alabama may pay well above or below $185. And it counts what was actually billed for electricity, including fixed service charges, so it is not the same as multiplying your own usage by the advertised rate.
Looking for the rate rather than the bill? See Alabama electricity prices by sector.