Average Electric Bill in Michigan
Residential · 12-month average, September 2025 – August 2026.
That works out to about $1,609 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Michigan has the 36th 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: 21.28¢/kWh × 630 kWh ≈ $134. A state can land high on either factor — Michigan pays well above the national rate but uses less power than average.
Compared with nearby states
| Michigan | $134 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $158 | |
| Ohio | $160 | |
| Indiana | $159 | |
| Wisconsin | $125 |
Michigan is $24 a month below (-15.3%) 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
- $211
- July 2026
- Lowest month
- $106
- October 2025
- Swing
- $105
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $172
- August 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Michigan peaks in July 2026 and bottoms out in October 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Michigan electricity bills in context
Michigan's average monthly residential electricity bill is $134, ranking 36th among the 50 states and DC—well below the national average of $158. The state pays 21.28¢/kWh, which is 3.21¢/kWh higher than the national average of 18.07¢/kWh. This higher rate is offset by lower consumption: Michigan homes use 630 kWh per month on average, compared with 876 kWh nationally, pulling the bill down by $24 per month.
Year over year since September 2025, Michigan's bill rose 7.9% from $124. Over the longer term, the increase is steeper: since August 2021 the bill has climbed 16.2% from $115, and since December 2008 it has grown 87.3% from $72. Seasonally, bills peak in July 2026 at $211 and reach their lowest point in October 2025 at $106, a swing of $105 around the twelve-month average.
Among neighbouring states, Michigan's bill falls between Wisconsin at $125 and both Ohio and Indiana at $160 and $159 respectively. The state thus occupies middle ground regionally, paying more than Wisconsin but significantly less than its other major borders.
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 Michigan may pay well above or below $134. 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 Michigan electricity prices by sector.