Average Electric Bill in Georgia
Residential · 12-month average, September 2025 – August 2026.
That works out to about $1,973 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Georgia has the 15th 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: 15.18¢/kWh × 1,083 kWh ≈ $164. 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 | $164 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $158 | |
| Alabama | $188 | |
| Florida | $169 | |
| South Carolina | $169 | |
| Tennessee | $163 | |
| North Carolina | $154 |
Georgia is $6 a month above (+3.8%) the U.S. average of $158. 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
- $240
- July 2026
- Lowest month
- $123
- November 2025
- Swing
- $117
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $234
- August 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Georgia peaks in July 2026 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 monthly electricity bill is $164, the 15th highest among the 50 states and DC. The bill sits $6 above the national average of $158, despite a price of 15.18¢/kWh that is 2.89¢/kWh lower than the national rate of 18.07¢/kWh. Georgia homes use more electricity than the national average, consuming 1,083 kWh per month compared to 876 kWh nationally—a difference of 207 kWh that pushes the bill higher even though the per-kilowatt-hour rate pulls it lower.
Over the past year, the bill has climbed 4.2%, from $158 in September 2025. Looking further back, the trend is steeper: since August 2021 the bill has risen 23.6%, and since December 2008 it has grown 44.3%. Seasonal swings are pronounced. July 2026 brought the highest monthly bill at $240, while November 2025 hit the lowest at $123, a swing of $117 around the twelve-month average.
Georgia's bill ranks lower than Alabama ($188) and Florida and South Carolina (both $169), but higher than Tennessee ($163) and North Carolina ($154).
Written from the EIA figures on this page, covering data through August 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 (September 2025 – August 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 $164. 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.