Average Electric Bill in Nevada
Residential · 12-month average, September 2025 – August 2026.
That works out to about $1,458 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Nevada has the 43rd 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: 13.37¢/kWh × 909 kWh ≈ $122. A state can land high on either factor — Nevada sits close to the U.S. average on both.
Compared with nearby states
| Nevada | $122 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $158 | |
| California | $164 | |
| Arizona | $163 | |
| Oregon | $131 | |
| Idaho | $116 | |
| Utah | $105 |
Nevada is $37 a month below (-23.3%) 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
- $207
- August 2026
- Lowest month
- $82
- February 2026
- Swing
- $125
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $207
- August 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Nevada peaks in August 2026 and bottoms out in February 2026. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Nevada electricity bills in context
Nevada's average monthly electricity bill from September 2025 to August 2026 was $122, ranking 43rd of the 50 states and DC—considerably cheaper than the national average of $158. The state achieves this despite using slightly more electricity than the national median. Nevada homes average 909 kWh per month against the national 876 kWh, but pay 13.37¢/kWh compared with the national 18.07¢/kWh. The lower rate more than offsets the higher consumption, resulting in a bill that runs 23.3% below the national figure.
Over the past year, Nevada's bill inched up 0.3% from $121 in the same period a year prior. Over five years since August 2021, it has risen 8.8%, and since December 2008 the increase stands at 6.9%. Seasonally, bills vary sharply: August 2026 peaked at $207 while February 2026 dropped to $82, a swing of $125 around the twelve-month average.
Among neighbouring states, Nevada falls in the middle range. Utah's bill of $105 sits lower, while Arizona at $163 and California at $164 run substantially higher. Oregon at $131 and Idaho at $116 bracket Nevada on either side.
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 Nevada may pay well above or below $122. 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 Nevada electricity prices by sector.