Residential Electricity Rates by State
Residential retail prices across all 50 states and DC, ranked lowest to highest. Latest data: August 2026.
National residential price since 2001
Sales-weighted national average residential price — revenue over sales, pooled across all 50 states and DC — every month since January 2001.
Residential rates by state — August 2026
| 1 | Nevada | 12.72 | ▲ 1.5% |
| 2 | Louisiana | 12.87 | ▲ 2.5% |
| 3 | North Dakota | 13.31 | ▲ 2.6% |
| 4 | Utah | 13.31 | ▼ 2.7% |
| 5 | Idaho | 13.37 | ▲ 10.7% |
| 6 | Tennessee | 13.42 | ▲ 3.1% |
| 7 | Nebraska | 13.54 | ▲ 2.9% |
| 8 | Kentucky | 13.80 | ▲ 4.8% |
| 9 | Arkansas | 14.37 | ▲ 8.2% |
| 10 | Mississippi | 14.43 | ▲ 6.2% |
| 11 | Wyoming | 14.43 | ▲ 0.4% |
| 12 | Washington | 14.63 | ▲ 7.3% |
| 13 | Oklahoma | 14.82 | ▲ 3.6% |
| 14 | North Carolina | 14.95 | ▲ 2.4% |
| 15 | Florida | 14.99 | ▼ 2.5% |
| 16 | Arizona | 15.05 | ▼ 0.8% |
| 17 | South Dakota | 15.15 | ▲ 8.4% |
| 18 | Kansas | 15.47 | ▲ 4.7% |
| 19 | Montana | 15.57 | ▲ 9.0% |
| 20 | South Carolina | 15.76 | ▲ 5.2% |
| 21 | Georgia | 15.90 | ▲ 3.0% |
| 22 | Texas | 15.91 | ▲ 2.9% |
| 23 | Oregon | 15.92 | ▲ 1.0% |
| 24 | Missouri | 16.02 | ▲ 3.6% |
| 25 | West Virginia | 16.31 | ▲ 4.2% |
| 26 | Alabama | 16.33 | ▲ 0.6% |
| 27 | New Mexico | 16.51 | ▲ 2.0% |
| 28 | Indiana | 17.02 | ▲ 3.3% |
| 29 | Iowa | 17.06 | ▲ 9.5% |
| 30 | Colorado | 17.17 | ▲ 4.9% |
| 31 | Minnesota | 17.20 | ▲ 1.7% |
| 32 | Virginia | 17.64 | ▲ 11.4% |
| 33 | Delaware | 18.70 | ▲ 11.2% |
| 34 | Illinois | 19.32 | ▲ 7.0% |
| 35 | Ohio | 19.38 | ▲ 10.2% |
| 36 | Wisconsin | 19.41 | ▲ 4.8% |
| 37 | Maryland | 21.40 | ▲ 7.9% |
| 38 | Pennsylvania | 21.77 | ▲ 9.2% |
| 39 | Michigan | 22.99 | ▲ 10.9% |
| 40 | Vermont | 23.84 | ▲ 7.0% |
| 41 | Connecticut | 24.51 | ▼ 18.9% |
| 42 | New Jersey | 24.61 | ▼ 1.4% |
| 43 | District of Columbia | 25.98 | ▲ 12.0% |
| 44 | New Hampshire | 27.64 | ▲ 13.0% |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 28.18 | ▲ 6.3% |
| 46 | New York | 28.65 | ▲ 7.4% |
| 47 | Alaska | 29.41 | ▲ 6.1% |
| 48 | California | 29.75 | ▼ 6.0% |
| 49 | Massachusetts | 30.48 | ▼ 0.4% |
| 50 | Maine | 32.11 | ▲ 13.7% |
| 51 | Hawaii | 47.18 | ▲ 21.3% |
YoY = change vs. August 2025.
How the residential price is measured
The residential sector covers households — electricity delivered to homes and apartments on residential tariffs. The price reported is 18.16¢/kWh as of August 2026 and represents the average of what customers actually paid, calculated as total revenue divided by total sales for each month, not a published tariff rate. The national average is computed by pooling all revenue and all sales across the 50 states and DC, which means states that consume more electricity in total have a larger influence on the figure, regardless of typical consumption per customer. The price is all-in, reflecting energy, delivery, and fixed charges recovered through the bill, so it exceeds what a retail supplier might quote for supply alone. Data come from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Electric Power Monthly retail-sales dataset, published with a lag of roughly two months and subject to revision as utilities file corrected figures.
Written from the EIA figures on this page, covering data through August 2026.
About residential electricity rates
This page ranks the average residential electricity price in each state and the District of Columbia for the latest month. The residential sector covers electricity sold to homes and apartments. The figures come from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Each state’s price is its residential revenue for the month divided by its residential sales in kilowatt-hours, and the national figure is the same calculation on pooled totals. It is an average of what customers paid, not a published tariff. Households buy small amounts at low voltage, so delivery makes up a large part of what they pay, and fixed monthly charges are included in the average.
In August 2026, the national average was 18.16¢ per kilowatt-hour, up 3.2% from August 2025. State prices ranged from 12.72¢ in Nevada to 47.18¢ in Hawaii, and the median state, Alabama, was at 16.33¢. Prices were higher than a year earlier in 44 of the 51 jurisdictions. In January 2001 the national residential average was 7.73¢.
Residential prices follow fuel costs and the cost of the local grid, and they change when state regulators approve new rates or, in states with retail choice, when supply contracts renew. Monthly swings are partly arithmetic: when mild weather cuts usage, fixed charges are spread across fewer kilowatt-hours and the average price rises. Spending on storm recovery and wildfire protection has also added to rates in some states.