Average Electric Bill in Louisiana
Residential · 12-month average, September 2025 – August 2026.
That works out to about $1,893 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Louisiana has the 25th 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: 13.02¢/kWh × 1,211 kWh ≈ $158. A state can land high on either factor — Louisiana pays below the national rate but uses much more power than average.
Compared with nearby states
| Louisiana | $158 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $158 | |
| Texas | $179 | |
| Mississippi | $174 | |
| Arkansas | $143 |
Louisiana is $1 a month below (-0.4%) 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
- $227
- August 2026
- Lowest month
- $113
- November 2025
- Swing
- $114
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $227
- August 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Louisiana peaks in August 2026 and bottoms out in November 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Louisiana electricity bills in context
Louisiana's average monthly residential electricity bill is $158, ranking 25th most expensive among the 50 states and DC. This bill matches the national average exactly, though it arrives at that point through different paths: Louisiana households pay 13.02¢/kWh, well below the national rate of 18.07¢/kWh, but use substantially more electricity at 1,211 kWh per month compared to the national average of 876 kWh. The lower price per kilowatt-hour is offset by the higher usage, resulting in a bill identical to the nation's.
Over the past year, Louisiana's average bill rose from $152 to $158, an increase of 3.7%. Looking at longer trends, the bill has climbed 23.4% since August 2021 and 22.5% since December 2008. Seasonally, bills swing sharply: the highest average appears in August 2026 at $227, while November 2025 reaches a low of $113, a difference of $114 between peak and lowest months.
Among neighbouring states, Louisiana's bill sits below both Texas at $179 and Mississippi at $174, but above Arkansas at $143. The annual bill totals $1,896.
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 Louisiana 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 Louisiana electricity prices by sector.