Commercial Electricity Rates by State

The commercial sector price is the average retail electricity rate paid by businesses and institutions — offices, shops, schools, hospitals, and other non-manufacturing customers. The figure is calculated by dividing total revenue by total sales for each state and month, yielding what customers actually paid in cents per kilowatt-hour rather than a published tariff. The national average applies the same method to pooled totals across all 51 jurisdictions tracked since January 2001, making it weighted by the volume each state consumes; it is therefore not an average of individual state rates. The price is all-in, including energy, delivery, and fixed charges recovered through the bill, so it exceeds a supply-only rate. The current national average for May 2026 is 13.54¢/kWh. Data come from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Electric Power Monthly dataset and are refreshed each month with revisions as utilities file corrected figures.