Average Electric Bill in Alaska
Residential · 12-month average, September 2025 – August 2026.
That works out to about $1,899 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Alaska has the 24th highest average residential bill.
Data current through August 2026 — the latest available from the U.S. EIA, which publishes monthly figures on a roughly two-month delay.
What makes up the bill
Price × usage = bill, exactly: 26.96¢/kWh × 587 kWh ≈ $158. 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 | $158 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $158 |
Alaska sits within a dollar a month of the U.S. average of $158. 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
- $127
- September 2025
- Swing
- $84
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $139
- August 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Alaska peaks in January 2026 and bottoms out in September 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Alaska electricity bills in context
Alaska's average monthly residential electricity bill from September 2025 to August 2026 is $158, matching the national average despite a very different split between price and usage. At 26.96¢/kWh, the state's rate stands 8.89¢/kWh above the national average of 18.07¢/kWh. Homes here use 587 kWh per month on average, compared with 876 kWh nationally—a 289 kWh shortfall that exactly offsets the higher rate. This places Alaska 24th among the 50 states and DC, counting down from the most expensive.
The bill has climbed 9.6% since the prior year, when it averaged $144. Over the longer span, the increases are sharper: a 22.6% rise since August 2021 and a 44.8% increase since December 2008. The state swings dramatically through the seasons, reaching $211 in January 2026 before dropping to $127 in September 2025—an 84-dollar swing around the twelve-month average.
Written from the EIA figures on this page, covering data through August 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 (September 2025 – August 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 $158. 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.