Average Electric Bill in Alaska
Residential · 12-month average, June 2025 – May 2026.
That works out to about $1,881 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Alaska has the 24th highest average residential bill.
What makes up the bill
Price × usage = bill, exactly: 26.65¢/kWh × 588 kWh ≈ $157. A state can land high on either factor — Alaska pays well above the national rate but uses less power than average.
Compared with the U.S. average
| Alaska | $157 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $155 |
Alaska is $1 a month above (+0.9%) the U.S. average of $155. Alaska does not border another state, so only the national figure is shown.
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
- $211
- January 2026
- Lowest month
- $126
- June 2025
- Swing
- $85
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $142
- May 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Alaska peaks in January 2026 and bottoms out in June 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Alaska electricity bills in context
Alaska's average monthly electricity bill is $157, ranking 24th among the 50 states and DC, counting down from the most expensive. The bill stands just $2 above the national average of $155, but the two states reach that similar figure through very different paths. Alaska's price of 26.65¢/kWh is far above the national rate of 17.84¢/kWh; however, homes there use only 588 kWh per month against the national average of 871 kWh, which pulls the total bill down enough to land near the middle of the nation's range.
Over the past year, the monthly bill has risen 9.7%, from $143 in June 2025 to the current $157. Over the longer run, the increases have been steeper: since May 2021, the bill has grown by 23.7%, and since December 2008 it has climbed 43.4%. These gains reflect steady upward pressure on both prices and the total owed per home.
Electricity use and bills shift sharply with the seasons in Alaska. The peak bill comes in January 2026 at $211, while the lowest month is June 2025 at $126, a swing of $85 around the twelve-month average of $157.
Written from the EIA figures on this page, covering data through May 2026.
Frequently asked questions
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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 Alaska may pay well above or below $157. 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 Alaska electricity prices by sector.