Average Electric Bill in Nevada
Residential · 12-month average, June 2025 – May 2026.
That works out to about $1,383 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Nevada has the 45th highest average residential bill.
What makes up the bill
Price × usage = bill, exactly: 13.22¢/kWh × 872 kWh ≈ $115. A state can land high on either factor — Nevada sits close to the U.S. average on both.
Compared with nearby states
| Nevada | $115 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $155 | |
| Arizona | $160 | |
| California | $160 | |
| Oregon | $132 | |
| Idaho | $111 | |
| Utah | $102 |
Nevada is $40 a month below (-25.8%) 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
- $183
- August 2025
- Lowest month
- $82
- February 2026
- Swing
- $101
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $119
- May 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Nevada peaks in August 2025 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 residential electricity bill from June 2025 to May 2026 was $115, ranking 45th among the 50 states and DC—closer to the middle than to either extreme. This bill is 25.8% below the national average of $155. Two forces drive this gap in opposite directions: Nevada's price of 13.22¢/kWh runs 4.62¢/kWh below the national rate of 17.84¢/kWh, pulling the bill down sharply. Usage barely differs, at 872 kWh per month against a national 871 kWh, so it exerts almost no influence on the comparison.
The bill has fallen since the prior year, when it averaged $132—a drop of 12.8%. Over the longer view, gains have been modest: the bill stood at $109 in May 2021, a climb of 5.4% to the current level, and at $114 in December 2008, making the total increase since records began just 1.4%. Within each year, bills swing sharply with season. August 2025 brought the peak at $183, while February 2026 fell to $82, a swing of $101 that dwarfs the twelve-month average.
Among Nevada's neighbours, the state pays less than Arizona and California, which both average $160 monthly, and less than Oregon at $132. Only Idaho and Utah, at $111 and $102 respectively, cost less than Nevada.
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 Nevada may pay well above or below $115. 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.