Average Electric Bill in New York
Residential · 12-month average, September 2025 – August 2026.
That works out to about $2,013 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, New York has the 13th 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: 28.59¢/kWh × 587 kWh ≈ $168. A state can land high on either factor — New York pays well above the national rate but uses less power than average.
Compared with nearby states
| New York | $168 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $158 | |
| Connecticut | $193 | |
| Massachusetts | $184 | |
| Pennsylvania | $175 | |
| New Jersey | $160 | |
| Vermont | $141 |
New York is $9 a month above (+5.9%) 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
- $234
- July 2026
- Lowest month
- $126
- November 2025
- Swing
- $108
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $212
- August 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: New York peaks in July 2026 and bottoms out in November 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
New York electricity bills in context
New York's average monthly electricity bill from September 2025 to August 2026 was $168, the 13th highest among the 50 states and DC. This bill runs $10 higher than the national average of $158, a difference of 5.9%. Two forces shape this gap: New York's rate of 28.59¢/kWh stands 10.52¢ above the national rate of 18.07¢/kWh, while homes there use less electricity than the national norm—587 kWh per month against a national average of 876 kWh—which pulls the bill down. The state's annual bill totalled $2,016. Since August 2021, the monthly bill has risen 46%, from $115 to $168. Over the longer span since December 2008, it has climbed 54.6%, from $108. Year over year from the prior twelve-month period, the bill grew 11.9%, up from $150.
Within the measurement window, the bill fluctuated between a low of $126 in November 2025 and a peak of $234 in July 2026, a swing of $108 around the twelve-month average. Among neighbouring states, New York's bill sits in the middle. Connecticut runs highest at $193 monthly, followed by Massachusetts at $184 and Pennsylvania at $175. New Jersey averages $160, while Vermont's bill of $141 falls below New York's. New York occupies a position between its more expensive northeastern neighbours and its cheaper inland neighbours to the south and west.
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 New York may pay well above or below $168. 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 New York electricity prices by sector.