Average Electric Bill in Utah
Residential · 12-month average, September 2025 – August 2026.
That works out to about $1,259 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Utah has the 50th 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: 13.28¢/kWh × 790 kWh ≈ $105. A state can land high on either factor — Utah is below the U.S. average on both.
Compared with nearby states
| Utah | $105 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $158 | |
| Arizona | $163 | |
| Nevada | $122 | |
| Idaho | $116 | |
| Wyoming | $115 | |
| Colorado | $114 | |
| New Mexico | $101 |
Utah is $53 a month below (-33.7%) 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
- $170
- July 2026
- Lowest month
- $79
- April 2026
- Swing
- $91
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $164
- August 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Utah peaks in July 2026 and bottoms out in April 2026. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Utah electricity bills in context
Utah's average monthly electricity bill was $105 over the twelve months from September 2025 to August 2026, the 50th most expensive of the 50 states and DC and $53 below the national average of $158, a difference of 33.7%. Over a year that comes to $1,260. Both parts of the bill push it below the national figure: the price, 13.28¢/kWh, is 4.79¢/kWh under the national 18.07¢/kWh, and homes use 790 kWh a month, 86 kWh less than the national 876 kWh.
The bill has risen 4.7% from $100 a year earlier. Since August 2021, when it stood at $81, it has climbed 28.9%, and since the series began in December 2008 at $65, it has risen 60.6%. Within the twelve months it ranged from $79 in April 2026 to $170 in July 2026, a swing of $91 around the $105 average.
Among bordering states, only New Mexico, at $101, has a lower bill. Arizona ($163), Nevada ($122), Idaho ($116), Wyoming ($115) and Colorado ($114) all pay more.
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 Utah may pay well above or below $105. 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 Utah electricity prices by sector.