Electricity Rates of the 40 Biggest US Utilities

Sort by what matters to you, or pick a state if you are moving. Each price counts homes buying their power from the utility itself. In states with retail choice or community programmes, a home on another supplier pays a different total. For all utilities in one state, see electricity rates by state; for bills, see the average electric bill by state.

All 40, sortable

EIA-861M, 12 months to the latest month; Reliant and TXU are Texas retailers, reported yearly. Homes: EIA-861 2025, including homes that buy power from another supplier. Outage minutes: EIA-861, all events, latest year. † Eversource Massachusetts: the price EIA has published since January 2025 does not match the utility’s filed rates, so we leave it out of this comparison.

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Smaller utilities, cities and co-ops, from EIA’s yearly survey.

EIA-861, a full calendar year, so these are not directly comparable with the 12-month figures in the table above. A utility in two states has a row for each.

Dearest, cheapest, fastest rising

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How these figures are made

The price is what homes paid the utility in a period, divided by the kWh they bought. It includes every charge the utility bills: energy, delivery, fixed charges, riders and credits. It does not match any one rate on a tariff, and it leaves out homes that buy their power from someone else. The 12-month figures sum revenue and kWh over the months EIA has published. The bill and kWh use the middle month’s customer count, so a one-month slip in EIA’s customer figure cannot move them. We never edit a month EIA published, and the latest months are preliminary until EIA finalises them.

Frequently asked questions

Download the data

• All 40 utilities, latest figures (CSV)
• Citable archive on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24071582): all 40 utilities, with field descriptions
• Dataset, code and history on GitHub

How to cite this data

@dataset{say2026usutilityresiden,
  author    = {Say, Jeremiah},
  title     = {US Utility Residential Electricity Prices, Monthly since 1990},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {GreenCalculus},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.24071582},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24071582}
}

Version history

• 1.1 (9 November 2026): the dataset is archived with a DOI (Zenodo) and on GitHub under CC BY 4.0.
• 1.0 (November 2026): first published.