Average Electric Bill in Georgia
Residential · 12-month average, July 2025 – June 2026.
That works out to about $1,932 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Georgia has the 19th highest average residential bill.
Data current through June 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: 15.04¢/kWh × 1,071 kWh ≈ $161. A state can land high on either factor — Georgia pays below the national rate but uses much more power than average.
Compared with nearby states
| Georgia | $161 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $156 | |
| Alabama | $185 | |
| Florida | $168 | |
| South Carolina | $164 | |
| Tennessee | $163 | |
| North Carolina | $151 |
Georgia is $5 a month above (+3.3%) the U.S. average of $156. 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
- $234
- July 2025
- Lowest month
- $123
- November 2025
- Swing
- $111
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $197
- June 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Georgia peaks in July 2025 and bottoms out in November 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Georgia electricity bills in context
Georgia's average residential electricity bill is $161 per month, placing it 18th among the most expensive in the country. The national average is $155, so Georgia sits $6 above that mark—3.6% higher. This premium comes entirely from usage: homes here consume 1,074 kWh per month against a national average of 871 kWh, a difference of 203 kWh pushing the bill up. The price Georgians pay, 15.00¢/kWh, is actually 2.84¢/kWh below the national rate of 17.84¢/kWh, which works in their favor.
From June 2025 to May 2026, the average monthly bill rose 2.3% compared with the prior twelve months, climbing from $157 to $161. Over the longer run, the change has been sharper: since May 2021 the bill has grown 20.5%, from $134, and since December 2008 it has climbed 41.3%, from $114. Seasonal swings are pronounced. The peak month was July 2025 at $234, while November 2025 fell to $123, a spread of $111 around the twelve-month average.
Among neighbouring states, Georgia's bill is lower than Alabama at $185 and Florida at $169, but higher than North Carolina at $150. Tennessee at $162 and South Carolina at $164 bracket Georgia closely on either side.
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 (July 2025 – June 2026)
Two caveats worth knowing. It is an average, so it blends apartments with large houses — a typical household in Georgia may pay well above or below $161. 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 Georgia electricity prices by sector.