Average Electric Bill in Oregon
Residential · 12-month average, June 2025 – May 2026.
That works out to about $1,581 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Oregon has the 36th highest average residential bill.
What makes up the bill
Price × usage = bill, exactly: 15.43¢/kWh × 854 kWh ≈ $132. A state can land high on either factor — Oregon sits close to the U.S. average on both.
Compared with nearby states
| Oregon | $132 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $155 | |
| California | $160 | |
| Washington | $130 | |
| Nevada | $115 | |
| Idaho | $111 |
Oregon is $24 a month below (-15.2%) 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
- $167
- January 2026
- Lowest month
- $110
- May 2026
- Swing
- $57
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $110
- May 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Oregon peaks in January 2026 and bottoms out in May 2026. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Oregon electricity bills in context
Oregon's average monthly electricity bill is $132, placing it 36th among the 50 states and DC, measured from the most expensive downward. This is 15.2% below the national average of $155. Two forces shape this gap. The price Oregonians pay—15.43¢/kWh—runs 2.41¢/kWh below the national average of 17.84¢/kWh, pushing the bill down. Homes use slightly less power than average, 854 kWh per month against a national 871 kWh, which also reduces the bill. Over the twelve months since June 2025, the bill has held nearly flat, rising just 0.1% from the prior year.
Looking backward further reveals steady growth. Since May 2021, the bill has climbed 26.9%, from $104 to $132. The rise stretches much deeper into the past: since December 2008, Oregon's bill has grown 51.2%, starting from $87. Seasonally, the bill swings by $57 between its peak of $167 in January 2026 and its low of $110 in May 2026. Of Oregon's bordering states, Washington comes closest to the state's bill at $130, while California's bill of $160 exceeds Oregon's by a wider margin. Idaho at $111 and Nevada at $115 both run lower than Oregon.
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 Oregon may pay well above or below $132. 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 Oregon electricity prices by sector.