Average Electric Bill in Kansas
Residential · 12-month average, June 2025 – May 2026.
That works out to about $1,562 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Kansas has the 39th highest average residential bill.
What makes up the bill
Price × usage = bill, exactly: 14.92¢/kWh × 872 kWh ≈ $130. A state can land high on either factor — Kansas sits close to the U.S. average on both.
Compared with nearby states
| Kansas | $130 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $155 | |
| Missouri | $145 | |
| Oklahoma | $141 | |
| Nebraska | $121 | |
| Colorado | $109 |
Kansas is $25 a month below (-16.3%) 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
- $188
- July 2025
- Lowest month
- $99
- November 2025
- Swing
- $89
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $116
- May 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Kansas peaks in July 2025 and bottoms out in November 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Kansas electricity bills in context
The average residential electricity bill in Kansas was $130 per month from June 2025 to May 2026, ranking 39th among the 50 states and DC. This sits 16.3% below the national average of $155, a gap explained by two separate factors working in the same direction: Kansas residents pay 14.92¢/kWh versus the national rate of 17.84¢/kWh, a savings of 2.92¢/kWh, and they use slightly less power as well, consuming 872 kWh per month against the national 871 kWh.
Over the past year, the monthly bill rose 2.8%, from $127 to $130. The longer view shows steeper growth: since May 2021, five years back, the bill has climbed 13.0%, from $115. Over the full span of available data, stretching back to December 2008, the increase is even more pronounced at 63.3%, from $80. Kansas has experienced considerable upward pressure across the entire fifteen-year record.
Electricity demand swings with the seasons. The highest monthly bill occurred in July 2025 at $188, while November 2025 brought the lowest at $99—a spread of $89. Among Kansas's neighbours, bills range from $109 in Colorado to $145 in Missouri, with Oklahoma at $141 and Nebraska at $121. Kansas ranks lower than all of them, offering its residents the most affordable electricity in the region.
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 Kansas may pay well above or below $130. 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 Kansas electricity prices by sector.