Average Electric Bill in Minnesota
Residential · 12-month average, June 2025 – May 2026.
That works out to about $1,426 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Minnesota has the 44th highest average residential bill.
What makes up the bill
Price × usage = bill, exactly: 16.12¢/kWh × 737 kWh ≈ $119. A state can land high on either factor — Minnesota is below the U.S. average on both.
Compared with nearby states
| Minnesota | $119 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $155 | |
| South Dakota | $138 | |
| North Dakota | $130 | |
| Wisconsin | $123 | |
| Iowa | $119 |
Minnesota is $37 a month below (-23.6%) 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
- $156
- July 2025
- Lowest month
- $100
- November 2025
- Swing
- $56
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $106
- May 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Minnesota peaks in July 2025 and bottoms out in November 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Minnesota electricity bills in context
The average monthly electricity bill in Minnesota is $119 since June 2025, placing the state 44th among the 50 states and DC, counting down from the most expensive. This bill runs 23.6% below the national average of $155. Minnesota households pay 16.12¢/kWh, which is 1.72¢/kWh lower than the national rate of 17.84¢/kWh, but they also use less power: 737 kWh per month against the national average of 871 kWh, a difference of 134 kWh. Both factors work to bring the bill down, with the lower usage pulling it below the national figure more sharply than the below-average rate alone would.
Over the past year, Minnesota's average bill rose from $112 to $119, a climb of 5.7%. Over the five years since May 2021, it has grown 15.0%, from $103. The longer arc is steeper still: since December 2008, the bill has climbed 49.4%, from $80. Seasonally, bills peak in July 2025 at $156 and bottom out in November 2025 at $100, a swing of $56 around the twelve-month average.
Among bordering states, Minnesota's bill matches Iowa at $119. Wisconsin comes in slightly higher at $123, while North Dakota stands at $130 and South Dakota at $138, both notably above Minnesota's level.
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 Minnesota may pay well above or below $119. 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 Minnesota electricity prices by sector.